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Wadley, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Liberty-Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77535. The Survey maps it on the Dayton quadrangle.

Wadley within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Wadley between 1996 and 2011, burning about 69 acres in total. None 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 burning7
Arson/incendiarism1

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
20 August 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 309
26 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 July 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH DUMP FIRE
19 June 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
1 June 2011Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE
25 April 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
20 March 1996Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 January 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wadley: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. 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
Esperson Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1928

Every working recorded in Liberty 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
Stilson1.9 miles13
Sheeks2.0 miles10
Ladd3.4 miles13
Esperson3.6 miles10
South Dayton4.4 miles11
Dayton4.5 miles13
Eastgate5.0 miles18
Gum Grove5.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377132. 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.