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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.

Attoyac within Nacogdoches 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

48 since 1992

Regional 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 burning24
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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 2013Natural7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7118
8 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CANCELLED
29 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
16 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7126
10 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON-7133
25 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE AT ETME
2 August 2013Natural17 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7070

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2019Thunderstorm WindAttoyac-Trees were blown down across the road near the 16800 block of Highway 21 east of County Road 338.

Every storm recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Chireno4.1 miles13
Suttons Mill5.0 miles12
Melrose6.3 miles11
Clear Springs6.5 miles12
Martinsville6.5 miles11
Swift7.9 miles11
La Cerda8.6 miles12
Woden9.7 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 AttoyacAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122552805The 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.