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Atoy, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rusk census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75785. It stands on North Falcon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Atoy quadrangle. It stands 279 feet above sea level.

Atoy within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Atoy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,613 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 9 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 burning66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
9 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 494
7 September 2009Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 207
5 September 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 214
5 September 1999Natural12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution6,550 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANGELINA RIVER BOTTOM FIRE
25 September 1999Natural8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atoy in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
May 2009Thunderstorm WindAtoy$100,000Several trees were snapped and uprooted. Minor damage was observed to a the roofs of a few homes. Winds were estimated to be near 80 mph.
February 2024HailAtoy-Quarter size hail reported 7 miles south of Rusk.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindAtoy-Trees downed along Highway 69 between Rusk and Alto.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindAtoy-Trees were blown down along Highway 69 south near County Road 1102.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindAtoy-A tree was blown down across Highway 69 just south of Rusk.
April 2017HailAtoy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Circle1.9 miles11
Shady Grove5.0 miles11
Central High5.1 miles10
Salem6.7 miles11
Rusk7.4 miles11
Redlawn7.5 miles10
Linwood7.7 miles11
Hudson Chapel8.0 miles10

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 AtoyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4817452The 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 1377961. 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.