BlockWesco, Texas
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Lefors census division. It stands on Cabin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lefors quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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.
- 1954 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Lefors quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Shamrock quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Wesco between 2005 and 2018, burning about 2,466 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 2011 | Natural | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LH WEBB |
| 12 August 2006 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2006 | Smoking | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TAYLOR RANCH |
| 2 May 2006 | Debris and open burning | 245 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 May 2006 | Debris and open burning | 225 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 600 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380755. 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.