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Burrow, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Caddo Mills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75189. The Survey maps it on the Josephine quadrangle.

Burrow within Hunt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

189 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Burrow between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,842 acres in total. 3 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 burning83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined72
Equipment and vehicle use19
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2013Fireworks6.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJT FIRE
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCROWELL RD FIRE
8 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013-571
27 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
24 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSKYE LANE
23 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hunt County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burrow in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
April 2022HailBurrow-A social media report indicated quarter sized hail about 2 miles east of Royse City, TX.

Every storm recorded in Hunt 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
Hendrix3.2 miles6
Caddo Mills5.3 miles6
Union Valley6.0 miles11
Clinton7.3 miles6
Pleasant Valley8.1 miles9
Meadowview9.6 miles6
Whitehead9.8 miles10
Cash9.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034666. 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.