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Cartwright, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Winnsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75494. The Survey maps it on the Cartwright quadrangle.

Cartwright within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

188 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Cartwright between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,176 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning119
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking12
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2012Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS & TRAILER FIRE
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 347
7 September 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 346
5 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAMPFIRE
25 September 2014Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9252014
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6194
20 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service70
18 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cartwright in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022HailCartwright-Golfball size hail fell at the intersection of FM 14 and Highway 37 southwest of Winnsboro.
April 2016HailCartwright-A photo was posted on the KLTV Facebook page of golfball size hail that fell near Lake Winnsboro.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindCartwright-Trees and powerlines were downed in and around the Quitman community.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindCartwright-A tree was downed onto County Road 4878 southwest of Winnsboro, Texas.
March 2000HailCartwright-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Forest Hill3.5 miles13
Oak Grove3.8 miles12
Stout4.0 miles12
Pleasant Grove4.0 miles12
Webster4.5 miles13
East Point4.8 miles12
Coke5.0 miles12
Quitman6.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380827. 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.