Vesrue, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Kermit census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79745. The Survey maps it on the Vesrue quadrangle.

Vesrue within Winkler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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 Pecos quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Pecos quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Vesrue quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Kermit quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

73 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Vesrue between 2008 and 2020, burning about 1,105 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Debris and open burning	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5

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
24 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 133 NORTH TRUCK ROUTE
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BLUE LANDFILL #4
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLD DUMP
20 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLD CABOT PLANT
20 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BASS 1218
14 September 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	115@BELLAIRE
17 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	200 EAST VAN
13 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	100 BLOCK LOCUST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winkler 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
Magwalt	1.4 miles	7
Kermit	3.4 miles	7
Cheyenne	5.7 miles	7
Wink	10.8 miles	7
Cowden Place	20.6 miles	7

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 Q122546986

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 1380720. 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.