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Carlos, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Anderson-Bedias census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77830. It stands on Big Branch. The Survey maps it on the Carlos quadrangle.

Carlos within Grimes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Carlos between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,199 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Natural1

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
8 September 2013Natural11 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4035
8 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4029
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10529 CR 174
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2013Fireworksunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4038
16 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKIMRSMITH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grimes County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlos in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
November 2015Tornado (EF1)Carlos$200,000This EF-1 tornado produced a damage path that started three miles west of Carlos near Route 30 with damage to trees and structures along Ada Oaks Lane. The path continued to the north northeast crossing County Road 173 then ran more parallel to County Road 244, crossing County Road 244 twice along its over 9 mile path. Damage was intermittent with numerous large trees uprooted or with their trunks snapped. Two trailers were thrown and destroyed. Numerous barns, farm outbuildings and mobile homes suffered severe damage. In numerous cases, tin and lumber debris were thrown over half a mile.
March 1999HailCarlos$15,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindCarlos$5,000Trees were downed by strong thunderstorm wind gusts near FM 244 and SH-30.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindCarlos$5,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCarlos$3,000A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds that downed some trees.

Every storm recorded in Grimes 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
Keith3.7 miles8
Piedmont5.2 miles10
Ferguson Crossing5.6 miles9
Roans Prairie7.1 miles10
Singleton7.5 miles11
Erwin7.6 miles10
Anderson8.9 miles11
Shiro10.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379507. 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.