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Authon, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Weatherford Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76088. The Survey maps it on the Garner quadrangle.

Authon within Parker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

127 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Authon between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,241 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined62
Debris and open burning40
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
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
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9000 BLOCK MINERAL WELLS HIGHWAY
6 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 920 & ANGUS DRIVE
29 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRUSSELL BEND
14 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBALLEW SPRINGS ROAD
12 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7001 FM 920

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Parker County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Authon in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
May 2015Thunderstorm WindAuthon$5,000Parker County Fire and Rescue reported large trees down across old Authon Road just west of HWY 1885, approximately 5 miles northwest of Weatherford, TX.
March 2023HailAuthon-Reported via mPing.
March 2023HailAuthon-Dime size hail was reported near Peaster.
February 2022HailAuthon-Reported via mPing.
April 2007Flash FloodAuthon-Flooded roadways were barricaded in both the Authon and Peaster areas.

Every storm recorded in Parker 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
Adell1.6 miles18
Garner3.3 miles18
Peaster4.1 miles17
Lemley4.9 miles18
Advance5.1 miles18
Cool5.6 miles18
Preble6.1 miles18
Fox7.0 miles18

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 AuthonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122556265The 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 1377964. 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.