Zipperlandville, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rosebud census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76570. It stands on Brushy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Westphalia quadrangle.

Zipperlandville within Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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.

1892 USGS Temple quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Westphalia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Temple quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

42 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Zipperlandville between 2005 and 2018, burning about 318 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2014-125
16 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2015-122
2 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
10 July 2013	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2013-095
30 June 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 53 FIRE
23 June 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2013-087

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Terry Chapel	2.3 miles	13
Barclay	2.9 miles	13
Wilson	3.5 miles	13
Rosebud	4.1 miles	7
Westphalia	4.7 miles	13
Travis	5.4 miles	13
Pleasant Grove	9.1 miles	7
Lott	9.3 miles	13

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 Zipperlandville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8072657	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 1380813. 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.