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Carpenters Bluff, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75021. The Survey maps it on the Achille quadrangle. It stands 535 feet above sea level.

Carpenters Bluff within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

29 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Carpenters Bluff between 2005 and 2019, burning about 446 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
1 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHYW 120 E
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1045 MIDDLE RD
15 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresChickasaw AgencyRIVER
28 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3165
17 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOAK RIDGE ROAD
11 July 2018Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE120
9 June 2006Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 June 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCCRAW FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Carpenters Bluff: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lattimore Sand Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grayson County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carpenters Bluff in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
August 1994Thunderstorm WindCarpenters Bluff$50,000Trees and power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
October 2009Flash FloodCarpenters Bluff$5,000Numerous roads around the county were closed due to high water. Also, high water rescues were needed in Whitesboro on HWY 377.
May 2025HailCarpenters Bluff-An emergency manager reported nickel to quarter size hail in Carpenters Bluff.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindCarpenters Bluff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grayson 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
Gover1.4 miles7
Bona4.4 miles7
Ambrose4.6 miles7
Terrace5.5 miles7
Penland5.8 miles7
Denison6.6 miles13
Joe7.0 miles13
Red River City7.1 miles13

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 Carpenters BluffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5045649The 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 1353851. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.