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Bug Tussle, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Honey Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75449. The Survey maps it on the Ladonia quadrangle. It stands 581 feet above sea level.

Bug Tussle within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

155 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Bug Tussle between 2005 and 2017, burning about 1,464 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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 burning75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3434
9 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3410 FIRE
9 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 3425
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONTROL BURN HWY 34
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 September 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE/TIRES ON FIRE
28 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bug Tussle in 1 storm report in 2007: 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
June 2007Flash FloodBug Tussle$200,000Streets and yards were flooded by several feet of water. A few roads were washed out and bridges were damaged.

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Bagby1.3 miles8
Oak Ridge1.5 miles8
Flat Prairie (historical)2.3 miles8
Silver City3.0 miles8
Lyday Crossing3.8 miles8
Pleasant Grove4.1 miles8
Ladonia4.1 miles8
Dial4.1 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 Bug TussleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4986080The 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 1381548. 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.