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Villa, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mullin-Priddy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76864. It lies near Round Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Mullin quadrangle.

Villa within Mills County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

44 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Villa between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,879 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR259
26 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
17 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR259
11 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5150
8 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR259A
29 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCARBOROGH FIRE
27 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR259

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mills 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
Blanket Springs3.1 miles17
Duke Crossing5.4 miles17
Mullin5.5 miles17
Democrat6.4 miles15
Ridge9.8 miles15
Bozar10.0 miles16
Ebony11.6 miles18
Durenville11.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380725. 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.