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Thompson Grove, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Texline census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79022. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo Springs quadrangle.

Thompson Grove within Dallam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Thompson Grove between 2005 and 2020, burning about 500 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
14 September 2015Natural83 acresCibola National ForestEAST THOMPSON GROVE
27 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCibola National ForestTG 1
17 June 2008Natural138 acresCibola National ForestTHOMPSON
16 June 2016Equipment and vehicle use35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFELT RD & FM 296
12 June 2006Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 May 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service21
16 March 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCibola National ForestTHOMPSON GROVE
17 February 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFELT M/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallam County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Buffalo Springs5.5 miles7
Corlena9.7 miles7
Coldwater9.7 miles7
Perico10.0 miles7
Texline11.9 miles8
Ware16.6 miles6
Bunker Hill20.2 miles6
Bolin21.0 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382859. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.