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Wright, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Plainview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79072. The Survey maps it on the Kress West quadrangle.

Wright within Hale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Wright between 2006 and 2019, burning about 66 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1424 & FM 214 HAY FIRE
30 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 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 Hale 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
Boone1.0 miles8
Wasson4.3 miles8
Edmonson4.3 miles7
Finney6.2 miles7
Seth Ward7.9 miles7
Halfway7.9 miles7
Plainview8.0 miles7
Furguson9.5 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380806. 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.