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Boyce, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Ennis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75165. The Survey maps it on the Palmer quadrangle.

Boyce within Ellis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

88 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Boyce between 2005 and 2019, burning about 2,312 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
20 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIKE ROAD FIRE
5 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2011Debris and open burning32 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD CHURCH RD
21 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service326 IKE RD
17 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1900 FM 879
15 August 2010Debris and open burning12 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5807 FM 1722

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boyce in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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
March 2004Thunderstorm WindBoyce$15,000The Sheriffs Office radio tower was blown down, a windmill was blown down, one barn destroyed, another barn was damaged, and trees and utility lines were blown down.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindBoyce$5,000Emergency management reported that several structures were damaged or destroyed east of the city of Waxahachie, TX.
January 2025Flash FloodBoyce-Emergency management reported the closure of Old Boyce Road, midway between Ennis and Waxahachie, due to flooding.
January 2025Flash FloodBoyce-Emergency management reported the closure of Mosely Road between Garrett and Reagor Springs due to flooding.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindBoyce-A large tree was split in half by high winds.
March 2000HailBoyce-no account filed
June 1996HailBoyce-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Ike2.5 miles10
Reagor Springs3.6 miles9
Garrett4.5 miles11
Palmer5.2 miles11
Waxahachie5.9 miles10
Howard6.3 miles9
Rockett6.5 miles10
Ennis6.9 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q97171449The 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 1331152. 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.