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Tuckers Corner, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Dalby Springs-Simms census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75559. It stands on Cooper Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hodgson quadrangle.

Tuckers Corner within Bowie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Tuckers Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,778 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 were 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 burning105
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service528
4 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6218
3 September 2002Debris and open burning190 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 176
27 September 2006Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 656
24 September 2016Debris and open burning14 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6156
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 630
23 September 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 174
1 September 2002Debris and open burning144 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 162

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie 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
New Hope1.1 miles11
Hodgson3.3 miles11
Dalby Springs4.3 miles11
Hubbard4.6 miles11
College Hill5.2 miles11
Ward Creek5.9 miles11
Garland6.5 miles9
De Kalb7.5 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380681. 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.