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Ady, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Canadian River Breaks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79010. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ady quadrangle. It stands 3,150 feet above sea level.

Ady within Potter 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

21 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Ady between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,668 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
7 September 2010Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVALLEY WINDMILL FIRE
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSARGES
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBR
7 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined458 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRODGERS GROUP
29 June 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHACKBERRY
25 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined144 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHACKBERRY
19 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use405 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD MUDDY
25 May 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAVANT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Potter County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ady: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Elkins Lime PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 57-130-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Potter County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ady in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2007: 9 hail, 2 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
August 2002Thunderstorm WindAdy$100,000Roofs were torn off of mobile homes and power lines were blown down by the strong winds in Valle de Oro northwest of Amarillo.
June 2007HailAdy-no account filed
April 2007HailAdy-no account filed
April 2007HailAdy-no account filed
April 2006HailAdy-no account filed
April 2002HailAdy-no account filed
August 2002HailAdy-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindAdy-no account filed
August 2002HailAdy-no account filed
May 2000HailAdy-no account filed
June 1997HailAdy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Potter 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
Boden7.0 miles9
Marsh11.8 miles9
Puente13.4 miles10
Gentry15.0 miles11
Chunky16.6 miles11
Bishop Hills18.3 miles11
Cliffside18.5 miles11
Gluck18.9 miles11

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 AdyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076397The 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 1379323. 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.