BlockWaldrip, Texas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Melvin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76852. It lies near Public Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Fife quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1894 USGS Brady quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1925 USGS Brady 2-b quadrangle1:48000
- 1928 USGS Waldrip quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1973 USGS Fife quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Brady quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Waldrip between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,833 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2008 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 2012 | Natural | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | STOVER |
| 14 August 2012 | Natural | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PAT SMITH RIVER FIRE |
| 24 July 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PR 746 |
| 14 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,097 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WALDROP |
| 13 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 45 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 765/2 |
| 13 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 765 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waldrip in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Hail | Waldrip | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walker Crossing | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Fife | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Knight Crossing | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Mitchell Crossing | 5.2 miles | 15 | |
| Military Crossing | 7.5 miles | 15 | |
| Lohn | 8.2 miles | 13 | |
| Stacy | 9.6 miles | 14 | |
| Doole | 9.9 miles | 14 |
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 Q122561356 | 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 1380734. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.