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Winter Haven, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Carrizo Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78834. The Survey maps it on the Carrizo Springs East quadrangle.

Winter Haven within Dimmit County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

60 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Winter Haven between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,150 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning18
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

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
20 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIKE AND BIKE BRUSH
17 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTARR
30 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 191
14 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAVENUE A FIRE
7 July 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRANSFORMER
7 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWAGNER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dimmit County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Winter Haven: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand

Every working recorded in Dimmit County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winter Haven in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2015Flash FloodWinter Haven-Highway 277 was reportedly severely flooded about 4 miles northwest of the city of Carrizo Springs.
April 2008HailWinter Haven-Nickel size hail fell at a ranch along Highway 277.
May 2011HailWinter Haven-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dimmit 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
Espantosa Colonia1.4 miles10
Carrizo Springs6.7 miles9
Carrizo Hill8.1 miles9
Carrizo Hills Colonia8.3 miles9
Brundage10.5 miles8
Asherton13.3 miles10
Big Wells15.6 miles8
Las Vegas20.1 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380796. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.