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Cass, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Atlanta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75556. It stands on Texas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bloomburg quadrangle.

Cass within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

253 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of Cass between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,641 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 70 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 burning104
Arson/incendiarism70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural9
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010162
5 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 340
30 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCCRD 3990
29 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAINEY FIRE

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 Cass: 2 past producers. None of them 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cass in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 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
July 1996Thunderstorm WindCass-no account filed

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
Bloomburg4.0 miles12
Springdale4.5 miles13
Lanark4.7 miles13
Domino5.6 miles19
Queen City5.6 miles13
Atlanta7.8 miles12
Smyrna8.1 miles13
Antioch10.2 miles10

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 CassAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q125156471The 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 1378099. 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.