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Ward, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Montalba-Tennessee Colony census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75853. It stands on Holly Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Blackfoot quadrangle.

Ward within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Ward between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,893 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning91
Equipment and vehicle use26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service491 ACR 432
6 September 2012Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7123
30 September 2017Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7133
28 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceACR453 ACR454
21 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service466
2 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service491 ACR 457
15 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANDERSON 14:56

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson 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
Blackfoot3.2 miles12
Montalba4.4 miles13
Bois d'Arc4.5 miles12
Tennessee Colony5.3 miles12
Springfield5.5 miles12
Bradford6.0 miles12
Bethel6.2 miles12
Massey Lake7.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380741. 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.