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Allred, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Denver City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79323. The Survey maps it on the Higginbotham quadrangle.

Allred within Yoakum County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Allred between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,461 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/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
23 September 2011Debris and open burning75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE (MUTUAL AID)
8 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
23 May 2008Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUCH ROAD FIRE
29 April 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution900 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE (MUTUAL AID)
15 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yoakum County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allred in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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
October 2002HailAllred$25,000Large hail damaged mobile homes and cars.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindAllred$4,000Strong wind damaged four power poles north of town.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindAllred-Wind gusts of 58 mph and 64 mph were measured by a Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet station at 1950 and 1955 CST, respectively.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindAllred-Measured by a Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet station.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindAllred-The Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet station near Denver City measured a 58 mph wind gust.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindAllred-Measured by a Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet station located 7WNW of Denver City at 1240 CST. This mesonet also recorded a gust to 58 mph at 1235 CST.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindAllred-The Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet site west of Denver City recorded severe thunderstorm gusts up to 69 mph between 17:15 and 17:25 CST. No damage was reported.
April 2015FloodAllred-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yoakum 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
Denver City3.5 miles6
Sligo10.9 miles7
Pleasant Hill12.1 miles7
Plains14.3 miles7
Bronco20.8 miles6

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 AllredAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196310The 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 1377925. 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.