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Antioch, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Atlanta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75551. The Survey maps it on the Douglassville quadrangle.

Antioch 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

234 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 234 fires within 5 miles of Antioch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 849 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 22 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 burning141
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism22
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural10
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
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 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011177
5 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 633
30 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 180
24 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCCRD 3434
22 September 2005Debris 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Antioch: 3 occurrences, 1 past producer. 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
Atlanta DepositIronPast ProducerGoethite, Hematite
Hickory Hill OccurrenceIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite
WatersIronOccurrence
Waters DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite, Siderite

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Antioch in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindAntioch1 hurtLarge tree down on an RV in Atlanta State Park, with occupant injured.
June 2023Tornado (EF2)Antioch$2,000,000An EF-2 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 120 mph initially produced damage along the shore of Wright Patman Lake. It snapped and uprooted hundreds of hardwood and softwood trees along its path, first crossing CR-3555. After it crossed CR-3555, it peeled part of a roof off of a single family home. The tornado continued to snap and uproot trees as it paralleled CR-3555 and crossed CR-3551 and CR-3554. The tornado strengthened to EF-2 intensity as it crossed CR-3659 and produced more widespread snapping of trees. As the tornado continued on, its most intense damage was at a two-story industrial facility along US-59. The tornado tore off the roof and damaged walls of the facility, bending and breaking parts of metal frame of its roof structure. ||After crossing US-59 and tossing vehicles, the tornado snapped more trees on the other side of the road. The tornado weakened some with more uprooting and sporadic tree snaps as it crossed FM-2327, CR-3781, CR-3778, FM-3129, and CR-3886. It finally lifted as it crossed CR-3889 as damage transitioned to all straight-line wind damage with winds estimated at 80 to 90 mph as the storm continued to the border of Cass County, Texas and Miller County, Arkansas.
December 2018HailAntioch-Quarter size hail fell near the Atlanta State Park on Lake Wright Patman.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindAntioch-A large tree was downed across Hwy. 77 between Atlanta and Douglassville, Texas.
April 2011HailAntioch-Quarter sized hail was reported at County Road 3214 and Highway 77 west.
April 2011HailAntioch-Quarter size hail was reported at the intersection of CR 3544 and FM. 96.

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
New Liberty0.9 miles10
Midway2.5 miles10
Armstrong Landing3.1 miles10
Poorboy Landing3.7 miles10
Knights Bluff Landing3.7 miles10
Douglassville5.2 miles10
Panhandle5.4 miles10
O'Farrell5.4 miles11

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 AntiochAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16160418The 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 1377945. 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.