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Admiral, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Baird census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79504. The Survey maps it on the Admiral quadrangle.

Admiral within Callahan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

33 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Admiral between 2006 and 2020, burning about 205 acres in total. 3 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
31 August 2006Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLE PLAIN FIRE
25 August 2011Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2228
24 August 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCURTIS
1 August 2008Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 473
3 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM2228
12 July 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRATLIFF #2
11 July 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRATLIFF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Callahan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Admiral in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2023: 2 hail. 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
April 2023HailAdmiral-no account filed
June 2019HailAdmiral-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Callahan 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
Belle Plain3.5 miles9
Jayell6.3 miles8
Rowden6.8 miles9
Putnam7.6 miles9
Cottonwood8.0 miles8
Baird8.4 miles9
Atwell9.0 miles9
Clyde12.8 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377919. 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.