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Chuckville, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rising Star census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76471. The Survey maps it on the Rising Star quadrangle.

Chuckville within Eastland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

32 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Chuckville between 2006 and 2018, burning about 1,344 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
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Debris and open burning5
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
18 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 131 US HWY 36
11 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRISING STAR CR 233
3 August 2017Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 129 4974
6 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLARK FIRE
31 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBROWNWING FIRE
23 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined165 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAILEY FIRE
2 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHULTZ
7 June 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTRY BARN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eastland County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chuckville in 1 storm report in 2010: 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
January 2010Thunderstorm WindChuckville$20,000The roof of a barn was torn off and a large tree was uprooted. Several structures also suffered minor damage.

Every storm recorded in Eastland 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
Okra3.3 miles13
Rising Star3.4 miles12
Branton5.8 miles13
Union Center5.9 miles13
Mountain Top9.2 miles13
Pioneer10.0 miles9
Romney10.3 miles13
Sabanno11.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122546788The 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 1378121. 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.