BlockArbala, Texas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Seymore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75497. It stands on Rock Branch. The Survey maps it on the Arbala quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 16 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.
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Arbala quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Alba quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
110 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Arbala between 1995 and 2018, burning about 981 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 | 72 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 136 |
| 8 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7125 FM 1567W |
| 7 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 5 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | EYNERS |
| 22 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 20 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9202015 |
| 2 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1567 WEST |
| 18 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 09182017B |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arbala in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2015: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arbala | $3,000 | A county commissioner reported approximately 50 trees were over roads in the Precinct 2 area. Most of these trees were broken off at 30 to 40 feet up the tree trunk. It took two days to clean up the tree debris. |
| December 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Arbala | - | A storm chaser observed a brief tornado south of Sulphur Springs at 5:33 PM. |
| March 1995 | Hail | Arbala | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Arbala | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arbala | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Arbala | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q122595594 | 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 1377948. 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.