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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.

Amphion within Atascosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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

266 since 2005

Regional 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 burning124
Missing data/not specified/undetermined71
Equipment and vehicle use47
Smoking10
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism2
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
9 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLISA & STANLEY KUBISH
9 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
8 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINERY FIRE
7 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH 173 AN CR307
7 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceVICTOR GONZALES
5 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2145

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atascosa County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2014Thunderstorm WindAmphion-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.

Every storm recorded in Atascosa 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
Poteet4.6 miles9
Ditto5.8 miles9
Anchorage6.0 miles9
Iuka6.3 miles9
Crown6.8 miles8
Rossville6.8 miles9
Jourdanton7.3 miles9
Dobrowolski7.3 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 AmphionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4748308The 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.