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Wampler, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Weatherford Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76087. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Weatherford quadrangle.

Wampler within Parker County

On record in Wampler

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

7 surveys from 16 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

111 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Wampler between 2005 and 2019, burning about 495 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined50
Debris and open burning20
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural1

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 2011Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEER PATH
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH LAKE
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service982 JOHNSON BEND
24 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service396 MM E I 20
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1259 FRIENDSHIP ROAD
13 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service201 DORRIS COURT
6 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceG&L

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Parker 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
Punkin Center1.5 miles16
Hudson Oaks2.1 miles16
Center Point2.6 miles17
Dicey2.8 miles16
Earls2.9 miles17
Weatherford3.5 miles17
Willow Park4.6 miles16
Wright5.1 miles16

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 Q122541963The 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 1379231. 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.