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Vista, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hamilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76525. It lies near Barner Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Shive quadrangle.

Vista within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

102 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Vista between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,617 acres in total. 1 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 burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use16
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2009Natural6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCGILVERY/LIGHTNING
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEVANT INTERSECTION
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHC
13 September 2011Debris and open burning200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLC
3 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTRIEGLER
29 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEVANT
28 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHEDDEN
23 August 2016Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 419

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton 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
Fairview2.6 miles13
Parsley Crossing6.1 miles14
Shive6.2 miles13
McGirk6.3 miles13
Schoolerville6.5 miles13
Ballard Crossing6.6 miles14
Ohio6.8 miles14
Slab Crossing6.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380726. 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.