BlockWilco, Texas
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1965. It stands in the Channing census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79022. The Survey maps it on the Wilco quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Wilco quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
27 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Wilco between 2006 and 2019, burning about 227 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 July 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7/20/2019 |
| 20 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 281 & 807 |
| 18 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 11 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7/18/2019 |
| 13 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 281 & CO RD 46 |
| 13 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 71311 |
| 10 July 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.8 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SPENHURN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilco in 1 storm report in 2007: 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 2007 | Hail | Wilco | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380779. 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.