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Boz, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Maypearl census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75167. The Survey maps it on the Boz quadrangle.

Boz within Ellis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

166 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Boz between 2006 and 2016, burning about 1,092 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning95
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Equipment and vehicle use18
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service009-181
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service011-196
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service011-210
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service011-193
29 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service010-203
28 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresTexas A & M Forest Service013-177
22 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service012-213

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boz in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBoz$20,000Broadcast media reported a barn destroyed, trees uprooted, and power lines down off of FM 876 south of Waxahachie, TX.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindBoz$10,000Several trees and powerlines were blown down due to high winds near the 2000 block of Old Maypearl Rd.
March 2025HailBoz-Public reported half dollar sized hail southwest of Waxahachie near the FM 66 and Arrowhead Rd intersection.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindBoz-Emergency management reported trees damaged on the north side of FM 66 at the intersection of Oak Branch Road.

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
Five Points2.5 miles11
Nelson3.8 miles9
Nena4.1 miles9
Maypearl4.4 miles16
Bell Branch4.5 miles10
Forreston4.9 miles9
Lumkins5.6 miles9
Nash6.8 miles9

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 BozAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q107919972The 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 1378041. 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.