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West End Place, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lubbock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79407. The Survey maps it on the Lubbock West quadrangle.

West End Place within Lubbock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

204 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of West End Place between 2006 and 2020, burning about 347 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined104
Debris and open burning35
Smoking18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2010Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010-75
7 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015-106
3 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2012-87
20 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015-102
9 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service6206 KNOXVILLE DR
9 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3900 AKRON AVE
5 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2016-89

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lubbock County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West End Place: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Walter Jarnagan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lubbock 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
West Carlisle1.3 miles10
Carlisle1.4 miles10
Doud1.6 miles10
Reese Village4.0 miles9
Broadview4.4 miles10
Hurlwood4.7 miles9
Lubbock5.0 miles11
Wolfforth5.7 miles9

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 Q122570604The 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 1371117. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.