Type, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Taylor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78615. The Survey maps it on the Structure quadrangle.

Type within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1885 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
1904 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1948 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Structure quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Type between 1994 and 2017, burning about 268 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 301 FIRE #2
5 September 2015	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 301 FIRE
5 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WINSTON ESTATE FIRE
13 September 2015	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WINSTON ESTATES FIRE
26 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1340 CTY LINE RD ELGIN
17 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	17-8170017
17 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	C.R. 463 FIRE
27 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Coupland	2.1 miles	17
Siloam	4.0 miles	16
Structure	4.7 miles	16
Beyersville	4.7 miles	14
Beaukiss	5.9 miles	15
Rices Crossing	6.0 miles	17
Normans Crossing	7.8 miles	17
Norman	8.1 miles	17

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 Type	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q138820043	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 2034670. 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.