BlockWhite City, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fargo-Odell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76384. The Survey maps it on the Northside quadrangle. It stands 1,358 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Lawton quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Elmer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Northside quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Vernon quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
38 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of White City between 2007 and 2014, burning about 2,348 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 were 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 | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | DAN WHITE |
| 23 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 11000 HWY 283 |
| 10 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 924 E |
| 2 August 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCDONALD FIRE |
| 19 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 350 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FARGO FIRE |
| 18 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 110 W #1 |
| 10 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 10 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White City in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2006 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Q126956995 | 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 1380769. 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.