White City, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Seagraves census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79359. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Point quadrangle. It stands 3,051 feet above sea level.

White City within Gaines County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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 Hobbs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Cedar Point quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Seminole quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Seminole quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of White City between 2005 and 2012, burning about 2,402 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
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
12 July 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1,000 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE (MUTUAL AID)
18 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	350 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 April 2008	Natural	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 March 2010	Smoking	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
27 March 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 October 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 January 2012	Power generation/transmission/distribution	600 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE (MUTUAL AID)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Ashmore

Every fire recorded in Gaines 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 White City: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Bromine, Sodium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	H.S. Smith Mine	Bromine	Producer	Brine
	Ozark Mahoning H S Davis Plant	Sodium	Producer

Every working recorded in Gaines 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
Ashmore	4.8 miles	7
Loop	9.7 miles	6
Seagraves	17.7 miles	6
Fairview	18.1 miles	6
Seminole	22.4 miles	6
Paynes Corner	29.8 miles	6
Higginbotham	39.2 miles	6
State Line	43.7 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.

Wikidata item Q126956972

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 2034820. 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.