Amphion, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Jourdanton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78026. It lies near Fern Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Dobrowolski quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Jourdanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Dobrowolski quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
266 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of Amphion between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,281 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning | 124 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 71 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 47 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LISA & STANLEY KUBISH |
| 9 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNKNOWN |
| 8 September 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WINERY FIRE |
| 7 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SH 173 AN CR307 |
| 7 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | VICTOR GONZALES |
| 5 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2145 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amphion in 1 storm report in 2014: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amphion | - | A NWS storm survey concluded that a microburst, associated with a severe thunderstorm, brought wind damage to the area just west of Jourdanton. Damage included trees down, roof damage, and several pieces of irrigation equipment flipped on their sides. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poteet | 4.6 miles | 9 | |
| Ditto | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Anchorage | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Iuka | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Crown | 6.8 miles | 8 | |
| Rossville | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Jourdanton | 7.3 miles | 9 | |
| Dobrowolski | 7.3 miles | 8 |
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 Amphion | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4748308 | The 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 1379342. 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.






