Attoyac, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Chireno-Martinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75961. The Survey maps it on the Chireno North quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Martinsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Chireno North quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
48 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Attoyac between 1992 and 2020, burning about 439 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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 | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 2013 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7118 |
| 8 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE CANCELLED |
| 29 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 16 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7126 |
| 10 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON-7133 |
| 25 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE AT ETME |
| 2 August 2013 | Natural | 17 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7070 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Attoyac in 1 storm report in 2019: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Attoyac | - | Trees were blown down across the road near the 16800 block of Highway 21 east of County Road 338. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chireno | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Suttons Mill | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Melrose | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Clear Springs | 6.5 miles | 12 | |
| Martinsville | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Swift | 7.9 miles | 11 | |
| La Cerda | 8.6 miles | 12 | |
| Woden | 9.7 miles | 12 |
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 Attoyac | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q122552805 | 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 1379373. 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.






