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Clairette, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Duffau-Clairette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76457. It stands on Green Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clairette quadrangle.

Clairette within Erath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

124 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Clairette between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,156 acres in total. 2 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 burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
20 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service113
8 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1680 CR 133
5 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 239
5 August 2017Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1824
31 August 2008Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2011Natural76 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAZY M FIRE
25 August 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 239

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erath County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clairette in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2025Tornado (EF1)Clairette$1,000,000An EF-1 tornado with max winds of 110 mph touched down 5.7 miles northwest of Hico along FM 1824 and moved northeast, damaging a few trees and outbuildings. Along CR 238, several trees were snapped and uprooted and outbuildings damaged. Further to the northeast, a home on CR 229 received roof and siding damage and several trees and outbuildings were damaged. More homes and trees were damaged along CR 209, and a large dairy farm received damage to buildings. The worst damage occurred along CR 211 where one home lost much of its roof and siding, and a mobile home was completely destroyed with debris blown up to 700 yards away across fields. The tornado curved more eastward and weakened, with the last damage noted along FM 2481 to trees in the Johnsville community.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindClairette$15,000no account filed
May 2011HailClairette$1,000no account filed
April 1995HailClairette-,,,,,,,,Thunderstorm Winds Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
October 1996HailClairette-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erath 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
Alexander4.8 miles12
Duffau5.9 miles12
Selden7.3 miles13
Purves8.4 miles12
Johnsville8.9 miles13
Three Way9.5 miles13
Cottonwood9.7 miles12
Harbin9.8 miles12

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 ClairetteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5125377The 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 1332872. 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.