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Capps Corner, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the St. Jo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76265. The Survey maps it on the Bonita quadrangle.

Capps Corner within Montague County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

114 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Capps Corner between 2004 and 2020, burning about 2,648 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use32
Debris and open burning31
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined700 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOBB HOLLOW
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 461
5 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR483
29 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015089
10 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOBB HOLLOW 3
9 August 2011Natural30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAPS CORNER FIRE
25 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresTexas A & M Forest Service677 CAPPS CORNER
24 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use81 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAILEY RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montague County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Capps Corner in 1 storm report in 1995: 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
June 1995HailCapps Corner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montague 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
Corinth3.0 miles9
Bonita5.5 miles9
Illinois Bend5.6 miles13
Saint Jo7.5 miles10
Nocona Hills8.3 miles10
Spanish Fort11.5 miles10
Nocona11.6 miles10
Gladys12.8 miles10

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 Capps CornerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5036197The 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 1379504. 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.