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Claytonville, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Roby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79556. The Survey maps it on the Bernecker quadrangle.

Claytonville within Fisher 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

30 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Claytonville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 3,979 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2

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
21 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM419
2 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOWER
9 July 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM419 FIRST DITCH
7 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFISHER COUNTY MUTUAL AID
29 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY
28 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY
21 July 2020Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIGHTENING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fisher County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Claytonville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Southwestern Brick Mason PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Fisher County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Claytonville in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 4 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 2024HailClaytonville-Public reported golf ball size hail.
May 2021HailClaytonville-A trained spotter measured this hail stone at 2.2 inches.
May 2012HailClaytonville-no account filed
June 2009HailClaytonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fisher 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
Capitola1.8 miles12
Bernecker4.2 miles8
Gannon4.6 miles12
Busby5.6 miles12
Center8.7 miles12
Sardis9.8 miles15
Longworth9.9 miles12
Palava10.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378126. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.