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Cash, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75402. The Survey maps it on the West Tawakoni quadrangle. It stands 502 feet above sea level.

Cash within Hunt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

297 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Cash between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,581 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning219
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7873 FM 2101
8 September 2017Debris and open burning3.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service660 CR 2266
6 September 2010Debris and open burning5.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2206 FIRE
5 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3440 C.R. 2173
4 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service686 F.M. 1903
30 September 2011Smoking1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2001 CR 2246
3 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use39 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREEN
3 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1635 HOLLOWAY LN.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hunt County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cash in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 4 hail, 3 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 2011Tornado (EF1)Cash$250,000A tornado touched down near the town of Cash and then moved northeast producing a non-continuous path of damage over 6 miles long. Up to 8 homes, a pipe manufacturing plant and two metal buildings were damaged in Cash. In addition, four U-haul trailers were blown across the highway in Cash. As the tornado continued northeast out of Cash, it damaged several more homes with most of them sustaining minor roof damage. However, one home sustained significant damage to the roof and second story near FM 1564 and FM 3519. Just before the tornado lifted, it damaged 5 more mobile homes, one of which was destroyed, and also significantly damaged a single family residence near the intersection of FM 1564 and Highway 69. This tornado has been rated an EF-1 with estimated maximum wind speeds of 100 to 110 mph.
March 1995Thunderstorm WindCash$15,000Several roofs were damaged by high winds.
March 1995Thunderstorm WindCash$10,000High winds blew a wall in and ripped the bay doors off the Cash VFD.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindCash$500Trees were knocked down on Rancho Road.
April 2016HailCash-Amateur radio reported quarter sized hail near the town of Cash, TX.
June 2023HailCash-no account filed
April 2003HailCash-no account filed
April 1996HailCash-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hunt 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
Weiland2.7 miles6
Wieland2.9 miles6
Boles Home3.3 miles13
Mount Bethel3.7 miles6
Meadowview4.5 miles6
Quinlan6.0 miles12
Dixon6.7 miles6
Hendrix7.0 miles6

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 CashAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5048622The 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 1332285. 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.