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Worsham, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pecos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79772. The Survey maps it on the Worsham quadrangle.

Worsham within Reeves County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Worsham in 2006, burning about 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5

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
3 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Reeves 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
Lindsay Division Colonia0.6 miles8
Lindsay0.6 miles8
Locker1.2 miles9
Mann2.8 miles9
Pecos4.6 miles9
Hermosa6.0 miles8
Hoban11.9 miles9
Collier13.8 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380805. 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.