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Chriesman, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Caldwell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77836. The Survey maps it on the Chriesman quadrangle. It stands 446 feet above sea level.

Chriesman within Burleson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

88 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Chriesman between 2005 and 2020, burning about 427 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
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 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCORROLL GRASS FIRE CYRD327
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 327 PASTURE FIRE
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 364
2 September 2013Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCYRD310#1 GRASS FIRE
2 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRD310#2FIREPAST FIST ONE
2 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR316
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePRIVATE ROAD 1006 GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burleson County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chriesman in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2007: 4 hail, 2 tornado, 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
September 1996Tornado (F0)Chriesman$500,000no account filed
September 1996Tornado (F0)Chriesman$500,000no account filed
January 1999HailChriesman$15,000Golfball hail along northern portion of county bording Milam County line.
May 2007HailChriesman$10,000no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindChriesman$10,000no account filed
March 1999HailChriesman$7,000no account filed
April 2005HailChriesman$3,000Hail was observed on Highway 36.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindChriesman$2,000Tree down on CR 377.

Every storm recorded in Burleson 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
Caldwell6.2 miles8
Goodwill8.2 miles8
Cooks Point8.5 miles8
Hix8.9 miles8
San Antonio Prairie9.8 miles9
Rita10.5 miles9
Gus10.9 miles9
Hogg11.4 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 ChriesmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5105649The 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 1354467. 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.