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Chalk Mountain, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Duffau-Clairette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76649. The Survey maps it on the Chalk Mountain quadrangle. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.

Chalk Mountain within Erath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 15 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

79 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Chalk Mountain between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,859 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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 burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural4
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service111 GRASS 220
5 September 2011Smoking100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service110 CHAULK MNT. RANCH
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2009088
13 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 204
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTURKEY CREEK CR196
9 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service104 10/22
30 August 2009Debris and open burning300 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2009078

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erath County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chalk Mountain in 1 storm report in 1995: 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
April 1995Thunderstorm WindChalk Mountain-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erath 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
Johnsville6.1 miles13
Three Way6.3 miles13
Duffau7.7 miles12
Selden10.4 miles13
Welcome Valley13.1 miles15
Clairette13.6 miles12
Knob Hill14.3 miles14
Bluff Dale14.8 miles14

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 Chalk MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5068806The 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 1332619. 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.