BlockWilson Place, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Junction Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76849. The Survey maps it on the Roosevelt quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1893 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Roosevelt quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Rocksprings quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Rocksprings quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Wilson Place between 2010 and 2018, burning about 135 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 | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2011 | Natural | 120 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PATTERSON RIDGE FIRE |
| 2 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2010-54 |
| 1 August 2011 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRANITE FIRE |
| 31 July 2011 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011-80 |
| 22 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 201876 |
| 21 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 201874 |
| 17 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2018-33 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 1380791. 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.