BlockWood Hi, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Victoria census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77905. The Survey maps it on the Marcado Creek quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS Marcado Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Port Lavaca quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Marcado Creek quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
108 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Wood Hi between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,447 acres in total. None 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 burning | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 43 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1686 FIRE |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD FIRE |
| 6 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WEEKEND |
| 26 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HILL ROAD FIRE |
| 2 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | DOROTHY ROAD FIRE |
| 18 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HIGHWAY 59 SHOULDER |
| 16 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 16 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1686 @ RAVEN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 Wood Hi | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q122595757 | 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 2034678. 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.