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West Delta, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Pecan Gap census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75448. It stands on West Fork Jernigan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Klondike quadrangle.

West Delta within Delta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

117 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of West Delta between 2005 and 2019, burning about 2,242 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use26
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALLEN FIRE
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2890
27 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7814 FM 904 FIRE
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 3132
17 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 2040
15 September 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 24 S GRASS FIRE
12 September 2013Debris and open burning8.2 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6318
9 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY24 S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta 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
Klondike1.4 miles9
Gough1.4 miles9
Friendship2.3 miles8
Needmore3.0 miles9
Antioch3.5 miles9
Yowell4.2 miles9
Liberty Grove4.6 miles8
Horton4.9 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380757. 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.