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Carroll, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lindale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75771. The Survey maps it on the Carroll quadrangle. It stands 532 feet above sea level.

Carroll within Smith 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

96 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Carroll between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,273 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 September 2009Debris and open burning60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 211
7 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVAN
26 September 2004Smoking3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 143
18 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 540
9 August 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRIPPLE K RANCH FIRE
31 August 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 433

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith County

Storms near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carroll in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 5 hail, 1 tornado, 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 2023HailCarroll-Hen egg size hail reported via social media along Interstate 20 in western Smith County.
June 2023HailCarroll-Hen egg size hail reported in the Stallion Park Place and Stallion Lake Ranch areas in northwest Smith County.
April 2021HailCarroll-Quarter size hail fell a few miles west of the Hideaway community.
May 2021HailCarroll-Nickel size hail fell in the Carroll community.
March 2016Flash FloodCarroll-County Road 419 west of Lindale, Texas was completely under water and a culvert was washed out.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Carroll-Multiple trees were snapped along a near 7 mile track in the Northwest sections of Smith County. A tornado moved into Smith County from Van Zandt County 1 mile south of Interstate 20. The tornado continued northeast crossing Interstate 20 about 2 miles east of the Van Zandt/Smith County line, then continued northeast ending 4 miles northwest of Lindale on FM 16. Winds are estimated at 75-85 mph.
May 2017HailCarroll-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Smith 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
Mount Sylvan3.1 miles15
Hideaway3.4 miles15
Hide-A-Way Lake3.5 miles15
Garden Valley3.6 miles16
New Harmony5.2 miles15
Wood Springs6.1 miles15
Friendship6.3 miles13
Lindale6.4 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 CarrollAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076425The 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 1353873. 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.