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Williams, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the May census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76471. The Survey maps it on the Pioneer quadrangle.

Williams within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

42 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Williams between 2005 and 2020, burning about 946 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2940 (11-028504)
28 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 411
23 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service100 CR 411
12 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use28 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRIDGE MAY LINE
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service583 RANKIN
29 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution14 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePITCOCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown 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
May6.0 miles14
Cross Cut6.1 miles9
Byrds7.5 miles17
Holder7.8 miles14
Grosvenor11.9 miles15
Lake Brownwood12.8 miles17
Owens12.9 miles14
Lake Shore13.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379278. 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.