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Almira, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Linden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75563. The Survey maps it on the Carterville quadrangle.

Almira within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

237 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Almira between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,951 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 24 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 burning126
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural14
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking1

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 2013Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJEMMY HARGETT
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM995
9 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarism50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 184
6 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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 Almira: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Concord SchoolIronOccurrence
Warren DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Almira in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2020: 2 hail, 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
April 2020HailAlmira-Quarter size hail fell several miles north of Linden.
April 2019HailAlmira-Quarter size hail fell 6 miles north of Linden.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindAlmira-A tree was blown down on FM 995.

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Carterville2.6 miles10
Pleasant Hill4.1 miles10
Red Hill4.2 miles11
Cusseta4.3 miles11
Warren Springs4.5 miles10
Bethlehem4.9 miles11
Nickleberry5.1 miles11
Gum Springs5.6 miles10

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 AlmiraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q125156245The 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 1377927. 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.