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Arnett, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Purmela-Levita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76528. The Survey maps it on the Purmela quadrangle.

Arnett within Coryell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

104 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Arnett between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,157 acres in total. None 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use23
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service528
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11000 W HWY 84 FIRE
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service64
25 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4000 W HWY 84
22 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6460 FM 1783
16 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service133 ADAMS LN
15 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5000 W HWY 84
12 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5535 FM 2412

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arnett in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 3 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023HailArnett$7,000Amateur radio reported golf ball sized hail near Arnett, TX.
April 2008Tornado (EF0)Arnett-A tornado was reported south of Highway 84 and CR 177 and moved east before dissipating. Only tree damage was noted.
May 2023HailArnett-no account filed
May 2021HailArnett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coryell 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
Purmela4.6 miles17
South Purmela4.6 miles17
King4.7 miles17
Levita4.8 miles11
Ater5.6 miles12
Gatesville7.8 miles16
Ames7.9 miles12
Pearl8.0 miles12

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 ArnettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q120961980The 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 1351262. 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.