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Chatfield, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rice census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75105. The Survey maps it on the Chatfield quadrangle. It stands 430 feet above sea level.

Chatfield within Navarro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

147 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Chatfield between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,798 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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 burning71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use26
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4
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
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1619262
26 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1401 MCKINNEY FIRE
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceC15-13059
22 September 2008Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2020Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceC2020881
12 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceC1927879
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1112490

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chatfield in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2009Flash FloodChatfield$750,000Numerous county roads and bridges were damaged across the county. CR 2230 along Richland Chambers Reservoir between Ladd's Harbor and Arrowhead subdivisions collapsed.
September 2010Flash FloodChatfield$40,000Water was reported over a bridge on Farm-to-Market Road 1126 one mile west of Interstate 45 near the town of Rice. Several roads were closed in the western portions of the county, and rising water was reported near several residential structures on Farm-to-Market Road 709 south of Dawson.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindChatfield-Emergency management reported tree damage in far northeast Navarro County.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindChatfield-Several large trees and power poles were knocked down in a 7 mile stretch from Chatfield, TX to the northeast part of the county line. Damage was associated to straight line winds.
May 2010HailChatfield-Ellis County Emergency Management reported one inch hail in the town of Chatfield.

Every storm recorded in Navarro 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
Tupelo2.5 miles8
Montfort3.3 miles9
Valley Farms4.6 miles8
Rice4.8 miles8
Roane4.9 miles8
Bazette8.2 miles9
Pettys Chapel8.3 miles10
Powell9.6 miles9

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 ChatfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5087592The 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 1378115. 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.