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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 18 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.
- 1891 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Garner quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
127 since 2000Regional 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/undetermined | 62 |
| Debris and open burning | 40 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 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 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9000 BLOCK MINERAL WELLS HIGHWAY |
| 6 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 920 & ANGUS DRIVE |
| 29 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RUSSELL BEND |
| 14 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BALLEW SPRINGS ROAD |
| 12 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7001 FM 920 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Authon | $5,000 | Parker 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 2023 | Hail | Authon | - | Reported via mPing. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Authon | - | Dime size hail was reported near Peaster. |
| February 2022 | Hail | Authon | - | Reported via mPing. |
| April 2007 | Flash Flood | Authon | - | Flooded roadways were barricaded in both the Authon and Peaster areas. |
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.
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 Authon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q122556265 | 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 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.






