Wilcox, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Old River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77879. It stands on Bethel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Snook quadrangle.

Wilcox within Burleson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1914 USGS Gay Hill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Snook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

108 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Wilcox between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,355 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning	67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	10231 FM.1361
27 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	9/27/2012
2 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
18 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 50 S
10 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 166
8 August 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	8-08-13
7 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	1856

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burleson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Clay	4.3 miles	10
Merle	4.4 miles	9
Chances Store	5.2 miles	11
Snook	5.4 miles	9
Scofield	7.1 miles	10
Center Line	8.5 miles	8
Beaver Creek	9.7 miles	8
Tunis	10.4 miles	8

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 Wilcox	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q115803798	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 1380780. 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.