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Wetsel, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Plano census division. It stands on Barksdale Creek. The Survey maps it on the McKinney West quadrangle. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Wetsel within Collin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

110 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Wetsel between 2005 and 2017, burning about 270 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Debris and open burning38
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4001 N 75
5 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1414 S TENNESSEE
4 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-0258
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service100 CENTRAL EXSPY
30 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service15-389
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceS AIRPORT RD
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service15-350
13 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service14-373

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wetsel: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Collin 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
Forest Grove2.0 miles12
Fairview2.1 miles11
Allen2.3 miles12
Winningkoff4.5 miles12
Lucas4.8 miles12
McKinney4.9 miles11
Parker5.3 miles12
Lowry Crossing5.4 miles11

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 WetselAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076229The 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 1379260. 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.