BlockTidwell Prairie, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bremond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76629. It stands on Big Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hammond quadrangle. It stands 384 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Hammond quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
39 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Tidwell Prairie between 2005 and 2018, burning about 637 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2011 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROSE HILL RD @ MINE |
| 21 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAMMOND RD FIRE |
| 18 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SH6 @ TURNER RD |
| 10 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | THOMPSON RD |
| 4 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH TIDWELL |
| 4 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAMMOND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Tidwell Prairie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7800930 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380663. 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.