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Winslow, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76645. It stands on Little Hackberry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Abbott quadrangle.

Winslow within Hill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

208 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Winslow between 2008 and 2020, burning about 2,154 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 were 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/undetermined113
Debris and open burning56
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2
Natural2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2017Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1311
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceI-35 AT 377 MM NB FIRE
9 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePINE STREET FIRE
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALLEN FIRE
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 77 GRASS FIRE
26 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN CORNELIUS RD FIRE
26 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceI-35 368 MM FIRE
20 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1127 HWY 22

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill 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
Hillsboro1.1 miles15
Chatt4.0 miles14
Peoria5.3 miles14
Carls Corner5.9 miles15
Vaughan6.2 miles14
Lovelace6.4 miles15
Lakenon6.6 miles15
Bynum6.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379288. 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.