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Wheelock, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Franklin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77859. It stands on Copperas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wheelock quadrangle. It stands 436 feet above sea level.

Wheelock within Robertson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 8 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

34 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Wheelock between 2006 and 2019, burning about 450 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTREE FIRE
18 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-0000039
14 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service16-0000028
31 August 2006Arson/incendiarism73 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 187
6 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-0000027
5 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service16-0000019
5 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16-0000018
20 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16-4559 OSR ELLIOTT FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Robertson County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheelock in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011HailWheelock-no account filed
January 1998HailWheelock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Robertson 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
Dunns Fort3.1 miles7
Eaton5.8 miles7
Black Jack7.4 miles7
Sutton9.1 miles8
Franklin10.2 miles10
Elliot10.2 miles7
New Baden10.8 miles10
Hearne10.8 miles7

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 WheelockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4116358The 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 1380767. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.