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University Park Village, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Arlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76013. The Survey maps it on the Kennedale quadrangle.

University Park Village within Tarrant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

94 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of University Park Village between 2005 and 2020, burning about 124 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined76
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE LOOP 820
6 September 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALLEN AVE
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREENBELT
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHN T WHITE
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEADOWBROOK
23 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceEDERVILLE
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREENBELT
18 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceEAST FREEWAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of University Park Village: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gifford Hill Lacy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Harston Gravel Company OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tarrant 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
Arlington1.3 miles18
Pantego1.6 miles16
Dalworthington Gardens2.1 miles16
Johnsons Station2.4 miles16
Southland Acres3.7 miles18
Tate Springs4.6 miles16
Handley4.6 miles16
Ederville4.7 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122554726The 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 2428253. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.