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Cedarvale, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Terrell South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75142. The Survey maps it on the Cedarvale quadrangle. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

Cedarvale within Kaufman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

128 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Cedarvale between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,678 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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 burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Smoking4

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
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHRIS
3 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR114 EGYPT
3 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 103 OLA
26 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 104
21 September 2005Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman 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 Cedarvale: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Davis PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kaufman County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedarvale in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
February 2017HailCedarvale-A trained spotter reported half dollar size hail near the intersection of County Road 108 and County Road 243.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Cedarvale-A brief tornado occurred near Cedarvale in eastern Kaufman County. Minor tree damage occurred, and this tornado was rated an EF-0.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindCedarvale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kaufman 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
Ola4.5 miles10
Rand5.0 miles10
Hiram5.2 miles10
Prairieville6.2 miles11
Abner6.6 miles10
Becker8.1 miles13
College Mound8.7 miles10
Cobb10.0 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 CedarvaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076429The 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 1378105. 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.