BlockWiggins, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76691. The Survey maps it on the Aquilla quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1892 USGS Waco quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1920 USGS Waco quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Aquilla quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Waco quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
135 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Wiggins between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,047 acres in total. 3 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 | 58 |
| Debris and open burning | 51 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE BRICKYARD RD 1833 |
| 9 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS-HWY |
| 8 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1941 GRASS/TRACTOR FIRE ROSS RD |
| 8 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 7 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 26 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PAUL SMITH |
| 13 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wiggins in 1 storm report in 2018: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2018 | Hail | Wiggins | - | Amateur radio reported nickel sized hail approximately 4 miles west-southwest of the city of West, TX. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379274. 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.