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Atwell, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Baird census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76437. The Survey maps it on the Putnam South quadrangle.

Atwell within Callahan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

41 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Atwell between 2005 and 2020, burning about 533 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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
5 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 880 SOUTH AEP/GAS PLANT
5 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 153
27 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 137
26 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSNELL
22 August 2009Natural4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHN ESTES RANCH
2 August 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1864 CALLAHAN
4 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSANCHEZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Callahan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Atwell: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Ramsey-1CopperOccurrence1973

Every working recorded in Callahan County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atwell in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 2014: 3 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
April 2014HailAtwell-no account filed
October 2013HailAtwell-no account filed
April 1993HailAtwell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Callahan 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
Cottonwood5.3 miles8
Putnam8.2 miles9
Admiral9.0 miles9
Cross Plains9.5 miles8
Rowden11.8 miles9
Belle Plain12.5 miles9
Jayell13.2 miles8
Pueblo16.4 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377960. 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.