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Wolters Village, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mineral Wells census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76067. The Survey maps it on the Mineral Wells East quadrangle.

Wolters Village within Palo Pinto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

357 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 357 fires within 5 miles of Wolters Village between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,381 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 27 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 burning121
Missing data/not specified/undetermined115
Equipment and vehicle use42
Arson/incendiarism27
Smoking22
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural5

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
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCOTT
6 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3489 281 S
6 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service6TH AVE
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
26 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1400
26 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service281 N
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNE 5TH AVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palo Pinto County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Wolters Village: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Mineral Wells QuarryFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Brazos Brick Div of Michigan BrickClayProducer
Can-Tex PitClayProducer
Mineral Wells Clay Products PitClayProducer
Texeramics Tile PlantClayProducer

Every working recorded in Palo Pinto 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
Mineral Wells2.7 miles18
Sturdivant4.0 miles18
Salesville6.2 miles18
Peadenville6.7 miles18
Coronados Camp7.8 miles19
Oran10.8 miles19
Brazos11.6 miles20
Graford12.4 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122562836The 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 1350495. 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.