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Caledonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Mount Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75946. It stands on Sandy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Caledonia quadrangle. It stands 390 feet above sea level.

Caledonia within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Caledonia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,378 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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 burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
4 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRENEE ELLIOTT
29 September 2002Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 222
28 September 1994Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1993Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2015Debris and open burning18 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7110
17 September 1993Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 103

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

7 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caledonia in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
May 2017Tornado (EF2)Caledonia$500,000This is a continuation of the Nacogdoches County EF-2 tornado that initially touched down just southwest of Garrison along Highway 59. Additional EF-2 damage, with estimated winds of 115-120 mph occurred in the extreme southeast corner of Rusk County along Highway 59, where the tornado tore through a chicken farm, destroying one chicken coop and killing all chickens, while also damaging 5 other coops. Several homes sustained roof damage from snapped or uprooted trees, and at least 20 outbuildings were damaged or destroyed. The tornado also snapped several power poles in this area and continued northeast along Highway 59 into Northwest Shelby County.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindCaledonia$100,000An NWS Storm Survey team concluded that the damage northwest of the Garrison, Texas community was consistent with that of straight line wind gusts. Three chicken houses were heavily damaged or destroyed on FM 95 at CR. 3257. Also, a culvert was lifted out of a ditch and destroyed.
April 2014LightningCaledonia$10,000Lightning ignited a gas well on FM. 95 between Mount Enterprise and Garrison, Texas.
February 2013Tornado (EF1)Caledonia$10,000The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey in Rusk County and determined than an EF1 tornado touched down 7 miles north northwest of Garrison, Texas. Storm damage consisted of the roof of a metal building having been partially peeled back. The roof on a mobile home was damaged, and a few trees were snapped along US Hwy. 84 in the community of Caledonia.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCaledonia-Trees downed at the intersection of FM Road 1971 and FM Road 95.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindCaledonia-Multiple trees were downed South of Highway 84 west of Timpson.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindCaledonia-Trees and power lines were blown down on County Road 3291 near FM 95 just northwest of Garrison.

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
Bryce3.1 miles11
Concord3.3 miles11
Arlam3.3 miles11
Lawsonville4.0 miles11
Mount Enterprise8.2 miles11
Brachfield10.6 miles12
Minden11.4 miles12
Sulphur Springs12.8 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.

Wikipedia article on CaledoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116115798The 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 1379492. 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.