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Avondale, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fort Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76052. The Survey maps it on the Avondale quadrangle. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

Avondale within Tarrant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

97 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Avondale between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,160 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined58
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 287
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS 287
27 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEPSON SALT
26 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 114
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 287
22 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 287
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNW HIGHWAY 287
14 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSAGINAW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant 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 Avondale: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Trinity Division Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Tarrant County

Storms near this place

16 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avondale in 16 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 14 hail, 2 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 2011HailAvondale$75,000Hail fell for several minutes in Avondale. The hail began as nickel sized but progressively grew to softball sized hail.
May 2011HailAvondale$75,000Softball sized hail fell just west of Willow Springs Golf Course. The hail knocked tiles off a pool and left holes in the roof of at least one home.
March 2009HailAvondale$25,000Quarter size hail was reported 4 miles west of Haslet.
April 2015HailAvondale$15,000Baseball sized hail was reported in Pecan Acres.
March 2016HailAvondale$7,000Hail up to the size of golf balls in Pecan Acres.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindAvondale$5,000A chimney was blown out to the side of a house. A detached garage or outbuilding also had minor door damage.
April 2015HailAvondale$5,000Ping pong ball sized hail was reported near the Business 287 and Highway 287 split.
May 2011HailAvondale$5,000no account filed
April 2015HailAvondale$3,000Ping pong ball sized hail was reported in Pecan Acres.
May 2021HailAvondale-Amateur radio reported quarter sized hail 4 miles west-northwest of Haslet, TX.
March 2018Thunderstorm WindAvondale-A public report indicated wind damage to trees and sheds with gusts estimated at 60 MPH in a neighborhood off Avondale-Haslet Road in the city of Haslet, TX.
April 2015HailAvondale-Quarter sized hail was reported just northwest of Eagle Mountain Lake in the Pecan Acres area.
April 2015HailAvondale-Pea to quarter sized hail at the Walmart at the Business 287 and Highway 287 split.
April 2015HailAvondale-Half dollar sized hail in the Sendera Ranch neighborhood west of Haslet.
October 2013HailAvondale-Quarter sized hail was reported in the Sendera Ranch neighborhood.
June 2010HailAvondale-Several golfball sized hail stones fell at the intersection of Avondale Haslet Road and Willow Springs Road in the city of Haslet. The hail stones broke apart on impact and no damage was observed.

Every storm recorded in Tarrant 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
Pecan Acres2.9 miles16
Haslet3.9 miles16
Eagle Mountain5.3 miles16
Lake Forest5.3 miles20
Eagle Acres5.4 miles20
Lakeview5.5 miles16
Peden6.1 miles20
Pelican Bay6.1 miles20

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 AvondaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21173214The 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 1377966. 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.