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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Texas, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43532. It stands on Bad Creek. The Survey maps it on the Colton quadrangle.

Texas within Henry County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Texas, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Texas, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 nearby

4 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Texas between 2012 and 2020, burning about 9 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15820
4 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15804
21 March 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 October 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15864

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 68 shown

Museums hold 68 specimens collected within 10 miles of Texas between 1898 and 1975: 60 Animalia, 3 Fungi, 3 Plantae, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Dabney Hart, G. Steyskal and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenh.Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenh.1919W.G. StoverLiberty Center
A photograph of the species Dromogomphus spinosus, not of this specimenDromogomphus spinosus Selys, 18541898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Dromogomphus spoliatus, not of this specimenDromogomphus spoliatus (Hagen, 1858)1898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Libellula luctuosa, not of this specimenLibellula luctuosa Burmeister, 18391898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Perithemis tenera, not of this specimenPerithemis tenera (Say, 1840)1898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Fusarium culmorum, not of this specimenFusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.1919Lewis H. L.Liberty Center
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Lewis H. L.Napoleon
A photograph of the species Camelina sativa, not of this specimenCamelina sativa (L.) Crantz1927Moseley, E.L.Wabash RR, Washington Twp
A photograph of the species Carpiodes carpio, not of this specimenCarpiodes carpio (Rafinesque, 1820)1927MB TroutmanBad Creek, near and at border.
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)1927MB TrautmanBad Creek, near and at border of Henry Co.
A photograph of the species Carpiodes velifer, not of this specimenCarpiodes velifer (Rafinesque, 1820)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Bad Creek, Washington Township, near Liberty Center, Washington township
A photograph of the species Eleocharis erythropoda, not of this specimenEleocharis erythropoda Steud.1927Moseley, E.L.Wabash RR, Washington Twp

All 68 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Texas: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gerken DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms nearby

7 since 2010

The National Weather Service names Texas in 7 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTexas1 hurtEmergency management officials reported a tree was blown down near the intersection of County Road 424 and County Road 4A. The tree was reported to have landed on a car, but no further details were available.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindTexas-Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down onto power lines.
August 2016Tornado (EF0)Texas-A law enforcement officer saw a brief touchdown in a field. Only crop damage occurred.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindTexas-Emergency management officials reported trees down at two separate intersections. The first was at Route 424 and County Road 4, with the second at Route 424 and County Road 2B.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindTexas-Emergency management officials reported a semi was overturned by the strong winds on US 24, near the Henry/Lucas county line. Numerous reports of trees and power lines being blown down were received across the county.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindTexas-Emergency management officials reported power lines were down along a three mile stretch of State Road 65, between the Wood/Henry county line to the intersection of State Road 65 and 110. This forced the closure of the road while clean-up occurred. In addition, numerous trees were blown down along the same stretch.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindTexas-Law enforcement officials reported large tree limbs down on County Road 4A, just north of US 24.

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Colton2.8 miles12
Liberty Center3.3 miles12
Damascus (historical)3.6 miles12
McClure3.6 miles12
Grelton6.2 miles12
Shunk6.2 miles12
Ratsville7.4 miles12
Cloverleaf (historical)7.4 miles12

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 TexasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22341029The 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 1049244. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.