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Caviness, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sumner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75460. The Survey maps it on the Pat Mayse Lake East quadrangle.

Caviness within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

176 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Caviness between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,521 acres in total. 1 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 burning125
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
8 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 79 FIRE
7 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOPE5
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13019
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined42 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6293
4 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS-P.HART
28 September 2016Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDR TROUT FIRE
22 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRICHARDSON
22 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGIVENS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Caviness: 1 past producer. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caviness in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2016: 2 hail. 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 2016HailCaviness-A trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail 8 to 10 miles north of Paris, TX.
March 2013HailCaviness-Nickel sized hail was reported in the Caviness area, north of Paris on Farm to Market Road 1499.

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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
Emberson2.1 miles13
Sumner3.4 miles11
Hinckley3.7 miles11
Hopewell3.8 miles11
Globe5.0 miles11
Powderly6.0 miles14
Givens7.3 miles11
Toco7.3 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 CavinessAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q115800886The 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 1354021. 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.