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Carterville, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Linden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75563. The Survey maps it on the Carterville quadrangle.

Carterville within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

172 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Carterville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,406 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 19 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 burning89
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use13
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 2013Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJEMMY HARGETT
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM995
9 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 184
6 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOPOHAN GRASS FIRE
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 357

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Carterville: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Concord School DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite, Siderite
Warren DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carterville in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2023Tornado (EF0)Carterville-A NWS Storm Survey concluded that a brief EF-0 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 85 mph briefly touched down along Farm Road 130, where it uprooted approximately 10 trees in a convergent pattern while also downing several small and large tree limbs.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCarterville-A tree was blown down across FM 1399. A motorist ran over the tree.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCarterville-Several trees were downed between Marietta and Linden, Texas including a 20 inch diameter pine tree blocking the roadway.

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Almira2.6 miles10
Pleasant Hill4.1 miles10
Warren Springs5.1 miles10
Sardis5.7 miles10
Bethlehem5.9 miles11
Nickleberry5.9 miles11
Cusseta6.5 miles11
Red Hill6.5 miles11

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 CartervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q125156322The 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 1378096. 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.