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Boxwood, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Ore City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75683. The Survey maps it on the Coffeeville quadrangle.

Boxwood within Upshur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 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

310 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 310 fires within 5 miles of Boxwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,373 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 9 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 burning206
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Natural14
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUPSHUR 01:47
8 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service450 COMAND
7 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-0318
7 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6176
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 383
7 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 450 COMMAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upshur County

Storms near this place

7 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boxwood in 7 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2013Flash FloodBoxwood$10,000High water entered a home in Ore City, Texas.
June 2023HailBoxwood-Golf ball to billiard ball size hail reported in Ore City.
June 2023HailBoxwood-Ping pong ball size hail reported in Ore City.
March 2013HailBoxwood-Hail was reported in Ore City, Texas.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBoxwood-Trees were downed in Ore City, Texas.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBoxwood-Trees were downed on Hwy. 155 at 2796 at Begonia Road in the northeast portion of the county.
March 2010HailBoxwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Upshur 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
Snow Hill0.8 miles12
Ore City2.1 miles13
Stamps2.5 miles12
Old Diana3.0 miles12
Coffeeville3.1 miles12
New Mountain4.3 miles12
Sand Hill4.6 miles12
Valley View5.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378040. 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.