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White Rock, Texas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Northeast Dallas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75041. The Survey maps it on the Garland quadrangle.

White Rock within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 20 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

141 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of White Rock between 2001 and 2018, burning about 302 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined114
Equipment and vehicle use15
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2015Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHICKET
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCOUT
6 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBROOK
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWATERCHASE
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLA PRADA
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWATERVIEW
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOLLY HILL
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceEL CAPITAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas 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
Zacha Junction0.9 miles21
Bethard2.0 miles20
Reinhardt2.8 miles21
Audelia3.0 miles20
Centerville3.2 miles22
Garland3.4 miles20
Rawlins3.9 miles21
Embree (historical)4.3 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379267. 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.