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Center, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Roby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79543. The Survey maps it on the Roby quadrangle.

Center within Fisher 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

52 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Center between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,231 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking5
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
6 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2010Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 419
24 August 2006Natural40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
16 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBARDITCH
5 July 2016Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEST 5TH LIGHTENING
29 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 July 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCURTIS CHAPMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fisher County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 tornado, 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
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCenter-A couple of barns were blown away along Farm to Market Road 2832 a few miles south of Rotan.
April 2008Tornado (EF0)Center-Law enforcement reported a brief tornado 5 miles southwest of the town of Roby.
April 2007HailCenter-Hail covered the ground.

Every storm recorded in Fisher 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
Sardis3.0 miles15
Roby4.2 miles12
Fisher5.6 miles15
Cross Roads5.7 miles10
North Roby6.4 miles15
Busby7.5 miles12
Capitola7.6 miles12
Longworth7.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1332520. 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.