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Webster, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Winnsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75494. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winnsboro quadrangle.

Webster within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

154 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Webster between 1996 and 2020, burning about 860 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning98
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking10
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2

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
7 September 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 346
5 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAMPFIRE
27 September 2003Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 241
16 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1820
10 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePEACH TREE FARM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood 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
Winnsboro2.8 miles13
Pleasant Grove3.9 miles12
Stout4.0 miles12
Westbrook4.2 miles13
Cartwright4.5 miles12
Musgrove5.5 miles13
Coke5.8 miles12
East Point6.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379249. 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.