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Albion, Texas

10 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 75426. It stands on Hemmingway Slough. The Survey maps it on the Negley quadrangle.

Albion within Red River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Albion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,071 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 13 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 burning26
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
6 September 2000Natural40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 374
5 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1995Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 158
28 September 2010Debris and open burning88 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 179
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning70 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red River County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Albion: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Red River Materials Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Red River County

Storms near this place

4 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albion in 4 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 2 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindAlbion-Trees were downed on Highway 37 just south of the Red River.
March 2024HailAlbion-Golf ball size hail reported near the Albion community.
June 2023HailAlbion-Golf ball size hail was reported via social media along Highway 195 just west of Highway 37 in the Albion community.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindAlbion-Trees were downed in the Albion community.

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
Silver City1.6 miles10
Blakeney2.9 miles10
Greenwood4.1 miles9
Manchester7.1 miles8
Davenport7.2 miles8
Acworth7.3 miles9
Negley7.4 miles10
Hopewell8.3 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 AlbionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15122425The 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 1379328. 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.