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Addielou, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Manchester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75412. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle.

Addielou within Red River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Addielou between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,797 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 10 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 burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2

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
9 September 2013Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6306
30 September 2017Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6165
3 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use513 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROAD 3 FIRE
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUSBY
20 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBENNY
15 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 144
13 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red River County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Addielou in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2020: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindAddielou-Several trees were uprooted, power lines were downed, and barn roofs were damaged on FM 195 near the Addielou community.
May 2015Flash FloodAddielou-Farm to Market Road 195 closed 3 miles west of the town of Manchester due to flooding.
December 2015Flash FloodAddielou-Several County Roads were covered in high water and closed including Hwy. 271 near the Bagwell community, Hwy. 82 East near Clarksville, CR. 410 and CR. 411.

Every storm recorded in Red River 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
Woodland3.1 miles9
Manchester3.5 miles8
Kanawha3.8 miles9
Kiomatia5.1 miles8
Midway7.4 miles8
Blakeney7.8 miles10
Negley7.9 miles10
Cross Road8.5 miles8

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 AddielouAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122566454The 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 1379317. 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.

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.