BlockWest Point, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Tahoka census division. The Survey maps it on the Mound Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Mound Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
18 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of West Point between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,338 acres in total. 5 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 | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 179 & CR 18 GRASS FIRE |
| 18 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | 400 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3 SOUTH, US 380 |
| 28 July 2009 | Natural | 160 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 179, 2 MILES SOUTH |
| 28 July 2009 | Natural | 290 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | W 380/179 AND CR A |
| 27 July 2009 | Natural | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | W 380 AND 179 |
| 26 July 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 179 & CR 18 |
| 19 July 2012 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 5 NORTH 179, GRASS |
| 9 June 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8 MILES W. 380 |
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 1380758. 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.