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Art, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mason East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76820. It stands on Hasse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Art quadrangle. It stands 1,365 feet above sea level.

Art within Mason County

On record in Art

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

40 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Art between 2005 and 2017, burning about 3,906 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural4

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 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2017Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH29E/AIRPORT RD
4 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH29/NORTHARTRD/L.PALMER
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH229E/RR1900
8 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH29E/RR1900/REUBEN RD/R.HINCKLEY
27 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3038 OLD PONTOTOC RD/T.DURST
18 August 2010Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRR1900/2418REUBEN RD/R&KHINKLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Art: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Copper. 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
Bauer ProspectCopperOccurrence
Mason County QuarryGraniteProducer

Every working recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Art in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 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
June 2023HailArt-Public reported half dollar size hail.
May 2016Flash FloodArt-A low water crossing was flooded causing water to flow over Highway 29.
May 2010Flash FloodArt-The Mason County Sheriff Office reported extensive street flooding in an near the town of Mason. A couple of high water rescues were also reported. Highway 386 north of Mason was closed. Flash flooding was also reported in Wolf Creek and many other small streams across northern Mason County.
June 2009HailArt-Golfball size hail was reported 10 miles east of Mason.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindArt-There were numerous tree limbs and a few trees blown down.
April 2017HailArt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Hedwigs Hill5.0 miles13
Grossville6.1 miles13
Mason6.4 miles13
Koockville7.5 miles12
Hilda10.5 miles13
Grit11.5 miles12
Loyal Valley12.5 miles13
Fredonia13.4 miles13

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 ArtAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4796635The 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 1351289. 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.