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Wixon Valley, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Northeast Brazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77808. It stands on Little Wickson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kurten quadrangle. 228 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 335 feet above sea level.

Wixon Valley within Brazos County

Population over time

2 figures

Wixon Valley fell from 254 to 228 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010254
2020228-26 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

62 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Wixon Valley between 1998 and 2019, burning about 614 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
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
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-0004997 GRASSBUR BRUSH FIRE
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-0004959 KURTEN HAY FIRE
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8282 E SH 21
7 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-0004352 HWY 21 FIRE
4 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16-5081 1179 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazos 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
Moore0.9 miles7
Kurten3.4 miles7
Tabor3.6 miles7
Reliance4.4 miles10
Cottonwood4.7 miles7
Steep Hollow4.9 miles11
Boonville6.3 miles11
Bryan6.6 miles11

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 Wixon ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969281The 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 1388563. 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.