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Abner, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Terrell South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75142. The Survey maps it on the Elmo quadrangle. It stands 535 feet above sea level.

Abner within Kaufman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

290 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 290 fires within 5 miles of Abner between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,442 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 were 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 burning160
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Equipment and vehicle use44
Smoking14
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
8 September 2005Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1602 SUNDOWN
5 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service136B
3 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceYELLOW
3 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1511 HIGHLAND ACRES
3 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 103 OLA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Abner: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Davis PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kaufman County

Storms near this place

3 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Abner in 3 storm reports between 2023 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAbner$10,000Part of the roof was torn off a house on CR 103 between Kaufman and Abner.
June 2023HailAbner$7,000A report of two inch hail was received via social media south of Terrell.
June 2024Flash FloodAbner-Emergency management reported multiple sections of Highway 2727 flooded.

Every storm recorded in Kaufman 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
College Mound3.1 miles10
Ola3.7 miles10
Oak Ridge4.3 miles10
Hiram4.5 miles10
Cartwright4.8 miles10
Post Oak Bend6.1 miles10
Rand6.2 miles10
Post Oak Bend City6.5 miles10

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 AbnerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076396The 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 1384213. 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.

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.