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Togo, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Smithville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78957. It lies near Pea Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Togo quadrangle.

Togo within Bastrop County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Togo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 656 acres in total. 4 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 burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 102
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKOVAR FIRE
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVYVJALA RD FIRE
14 September 1992Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 August 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 August 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD LOCKHART
13 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEDUNA ROAD
12 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop 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
Willman2.5 miles11
Kovar3.4 miles11
Rosanky4.2 miles11
Flower Hill4.7 miles11
Upton4.8 miles17
Smithville5.1 miles17
Colorado5.1 miles11
Jordan7.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380668. 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.