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Charleston, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cooper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75432. The Survey maps it on the Charleston quadrangle.

Charleston within Delta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

21 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Charleston between 2005 and 2018, burning about 161 acres in total. 1 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
25 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1202 & FM 895
27 August 2018Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURKHART GRASS FIRE
24 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2016112
27 June 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 June 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 895
22 June 2014Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6/22/14 FM 895 @ CR 1230 WHEAT FIELD FIRE
19 June 2006Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Charleston in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 1999Thunderstorm WindCharleston$100Trees and power lines were knocked down by thunderstorm winds.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCharleston-A trained spotter reported trees down along Highway 19 near the South Sulphur River.
March 2000HailCharleston-no account filed
March 1996HailCharleston-no account filed
March 1996HailCharleston-no account filed
April 1996HailCharleston-no account filed
November 1996Flash FloodCharleston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
East Delta1.2 miles8
Vasco2.8 miles8
Pacio3.1 miles8
Post Oak3.8 miles8
Prattville3.9 miles8
Lake Creek5.1 miles8
Kensing5.6 miles8
Enloe7.3 miles8

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 CharlestonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q128996465The 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 1354322. 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.