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From Cedar Park to San Marcos, Central Texas is experiencing critical fire conditions. Here's how to track fires across Texas in real-time. Track Texas fires: Map traces current wildfires burning ...
The Grape Vine Creek fire, at 34,800 acres, was 60% contained. The Magenta Fire in Oldham County, spanning approximately 3,300 acres, was 85% contained. The 2,000-acre 687 Reamer Fire was 10% ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — More than 5,800 acres have burned in wildfires across Central Texas so far in 2024, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. A total of 29 fires have burned 5,871.1 acres in ...
Abilene (/ ˈ æ b ɪ l iː n / AB-i-leen) is a city in Taylor and Jones counties, Texas, United States. Its population was 125,182 at the 2020 census . [ 9 ] It is the principal city of the Abilene metropolitan statistical area , which had a population of 176,579 as of 2020. [ 10 ]
The 2024 Texas wildfires were marked by several major fires, including the Smokehouse Creek Fire in the Texas panhandle and part of Oklahoma. The Smokehouse Creek Fire burned an estimated 1,058,482 acres (1,653.878 sq mi; 428,352 ha) in Texas and Oklahoma and was completely contained on March 16, [ 1 ] becoming the second largest fire in US ...
The Abilene metropolitan statistical area is a metropolitan statistical area in west-central Texas that covers three counties—Taylor, Jones, and Callahan. As of the 2020 census , the MSA had a population of 176,579.
Tracking the fires: Texas fires map: Track wildfires as Smokehouse Creek blaze engulfs 500,000 acres Contributing: Ramon Padilla, Karina Zaiets, Javier Zarracina, Julia Gomez, Associated Press ...
[5] [7] In 1880, the Texas & Pacific Railroad signed an agreement to run tracks through the future city of Abilene. [6] Abilene was established in 1882, and named after Abilene, Kansas. [8] Abilene became the county seat in 1883. [8] A wagon train of 10 Baptist families arrived in the county that year. [5]