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Carmine, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Round Top census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78932. The Survey maps it on the Carmine quadrangle. 244 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 433 feet above sea level.

Carmine within Fayette County

Population over time

3 figures

Carmine grew from 239 to 244 between 1980 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
1980239
2010250
2020244-6 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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.

What the histories say of this town

468 words

1 chapter about Carmine from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
Fayette County, Her History and Her PeopleFayette County, Her History and Her People (1902)468 words

Fires near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Carmine between 1998 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. None 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOYOTE RUN
4 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use11 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSANDSTONE
5 July 2013Fireworks21 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHERCULES ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carmine in 2 storm reports in 2016: 1 hail, 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
May 2016Flash FloodCarmine-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in high water rescues in Carmine.
May 2016HailCarmine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Winedale4.9 miles7
Ledbetter5.6 miles8
Round Top5.8 miles7
Waldeck8.2 miles8
Warrenton9.4 miles7
Walhalla9.5 miles8
Nechanitz10.3 miles8
Haw Creek (historical)10.5 miles7

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 CarmineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978747The 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 1332175. 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.