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Walker Village, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Fort Cavazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76544. It lies near Castle Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Post Oak Mountain quadrangle.

Walker Village within Bell County

On record in Walker Village

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

721 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 721 fires within 5 miles of Walker Village between 2005 and 2020, burning about 4,394 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 were 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/undetermined554
Smoking53
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use28
Recreation and ceremony25
Arson/incendiarism23
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
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
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service503 N 38TH ST
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service403 CARLEY DR
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceON TRIMMIER RD @ E CENTRAL TX EXPY
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1106 RIDGEWAY DR.
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceON E STAN SCHLUETER LOOP AT CUNNINGHAM RD
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceON REGENCY DR AT E STAN SCHLUETER LOOP
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceON WALES DR AT WILLOW SPRINGS RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Walker Village: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Killeen Wash PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sadler Washer & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bell 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
Killeen1.3 miles18
McNair Village1.8 miles15
Chaffee Village2.0 miles15
Lone Star2.7 miles18
Harker Heights5.0 miles18
Brookhaven6.0 miles17
Curry Crossing6.5 miles17
Nolanville7.4 miles19

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 Q122594478The 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 1370768. 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.