Arvana, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lamesa Northeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79331. The Survey maps it on the Lamesa North quadrangle.

Arvana within Dawson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1954 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Lamesa North quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lamesa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Arvana in 2006, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
27 February 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 January 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dawson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arvana in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2021: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2021	Tornado (EF0)	Arvana	-	A thunderstorm produced a tornado about two miles east of Arvana. There were multiple reports of a funnel cloud with rotating dust underneath it for three to five minutes. The tornado remained over open fields with no damage reported. The tornado was rated as an EF-0.
October 2003	Hail	Arvana	-	Nickel size hail covered the ground along Highway 87.
September 2003	Hail	Arvana	-	Baseball size hail was reported along Farm to Market Road 2411 east of Arvana. This very large hail was observed in association with the destructive hail swath listed above. Damage estimates indicated in the previous listing reflect those associated with this report in addition to the numerous reports of relatively smaller hail along entire the damage path.
May 2019	Hail	Arvana	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dawson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hancock	2.8 miles	8
Lamesa	5.3 miles	8
Hindman	5.6 miles	8
Los Ybanez	6.3 miles	8
Punkin Center	7.7 miles	6
Grandview	8.2 miles	8
Key	8.3 miles	8
Mungerville	9.7 miles	6

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 Arvana	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122565685	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 1377956. 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.