Valley Junction, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Hearne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77859. The Survey maps it on the Gause quadrangle.

Valley Junction within Robertson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Gause quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

65 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Valley Junction between 2005 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning	42
Smoking	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
3 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUSEFUSE
21 August 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
19 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	7.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BARRACUDA
5 July 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIEE
5 July 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
31 July 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
3 July 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Robertson 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
Goodland	3.2 miles	8
Tatsie Crossing	3.3 miles	8
Hearne	3.5 miles	7
Port Sullivan	3.5 miles	7
Tatsie	3.8 miles	8
Nicholas	4.7 miles	8
Seger	5.5 miles	7
Sutton	5.9 miles	8

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 Valley Junction	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7912117	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 1380704. 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.