Westway, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hereford West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79045. The Survey maps it on the Westway quadrangle.

Westway within Deaf Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1954 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Westway quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Hereford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Westway between 2006 and 2017, burning about 68 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	2
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
7 August 2011	Natural	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LL
29 July 2006	Natural	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 May 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	20
10 April 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	YOSTEN
27 March 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 February 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 December 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	VASEK
6 November 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Deaf Smith 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hereford	7.9 miles	8
Joel	13.2 miles	8
Milo Center	13.4 miles	8
Bootleg	14.2 miles	8
Simms	15.6 miles	6
Walcott	16.0 miles	8
Dawn	19.3 miles	10
Ford	20.8 miles	6

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.

Wikipedia article on Westway	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q128800310	The 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 1380763. 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.