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Carmona, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Corrigan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75939. It stands on Pump Branch. The Survey maps it on the Carmona quadrangle.

Carmona within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Carmona between 1992 and 2018, burning about 20,740 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1993Arson/incendiarism40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 324
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7117
19 September 1992Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7108
25 August 2015Natural123 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREILLY RANCH ROAD
25 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 777
22 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 747

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carmona in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCarmona$3,000A severe thunderstorm downed trees along Highway 287 near Carmona.
April 2024Flash FloodCarmona-Flash flooding along Hwy 287 at Bull Creek made the roadway impassable.

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Asia4.7 miles13
Corrigan6.9 miles13
Snow Hill7.8 miles13
Colita7.9 miles12
Pleasant Hill8.5 miles11
Skinner Town8.7 miles11
Moscow8.8 miles13
Bering8.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379508. 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.