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Chambersville, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Anna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75071. It stands on Hurricane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weston quadrangle. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Chambersville within Collin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

80 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Chambersville between 2006 and 2016, burning about 322 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service75&455
20 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANNA FIRE
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burning24 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWESTON
12 September 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 168 & CR 862
10 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service13083170
4 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service10062243

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chambersville in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 2 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 2024Thunderstorm WindChambersville$2,000Sporadic thunderstorm wind damage was found extending from south of Weston to the Trinity Falls neighborhood near Hwy 75. Mostly tree damage was observed but some wood signs and shingles were also damaged. This damage was likely caused by RFD winds in the aftermath of the earlier tornado.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindChambersville-Strong thunderstorm winds snapped several large tree branches on a property on Weston Road in Celina. At least 6 trees had broken tree limbs with the diameters averaging 10-16 inches.

Every storm recorded in Collin 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
Roland2.0 miles7
Weston3.4 miles7
Melissa3.6 miles8
Kelly4.0 miles8
Parris (historical)4.0 miles8
Bloomdale4.7 miles11
Anna5.5 miles8
Rhea Mills6.0 miles7

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 ChambersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076432The 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 1379530. 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.