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Wicker, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the South Brazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77845. The Survey maps it on the Wellborn quadrangle.

Wicker within Brazos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

298 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Wicker between 1995 and 2020, burning about 704 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined111
Debris and open burning80
Equipment and vehicle use46
Smoking23
Power generation/transmission/distribution18
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
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
9 September 2019Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHEHIN FIRE
8 September 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARGRAVES FIRE
8 September 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-6258 GREENS PRAIRIE FIRE
8 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15-5694 BOSWELL FIRE
7 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16-5882 TRAILER FIRE
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15-5661 SANDSTONE FIRE
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0004464 HARVEY MITCHELL HOT SPOT
5 September 2014Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14-0005468 ARRINGTON FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazos 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
Wellborn0.5 miles10
Royder0.8 miles10
Enright2.4 miles10
Koppe2.5 miles10
Spear4.6 miles10
Peach Creek6.2 miles9
College Station6.3 miles11
Millican7.5 miles14

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 WickerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q115152726The 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 1380778. 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.