BlockWise, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cedar Creek Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75103. It stands on Denton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cedarvale quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Cedarvale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
43 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Wise between 2005 and 2019, burning about 974 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1255 |
| 5 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2909 |
| 10 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2010-321 |
| 7 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 25 August 2009 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2602 |
| 17 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6000 CR 109B |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wise in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wise | $40,000 | One barn was destroyed, two barns were heavily damaged, and many trees were blown down by high winds. High winds caused severe damage to several tractor-semitrailers, a carport, and an outbuilding. |
| March 2021 | Hail | Wise | $5,000 | no account filed |
| October 1994 | Hail | Wise | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Wise | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q116055772 | 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 1379289. 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.
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.