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Cliffside, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Canadian River Breaks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79124. The Survey maps it on the Cliffside quadrangle. It stands 3,415 feet above sea level.

Cliffside within Potter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

136 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Cliffside between 2005 and 2020, burning about 6,232 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined70
Equipment and vehicle use33
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Debris and open burning7
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMITH
16 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIGHTFOOT
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-13120
1 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceESCOBETO
9 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTWO DEER
7 August 2020Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKIRK
7 August 2019Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBALL
4 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMILLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Potter 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 Cliffside: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Zinc. 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
(Facility) Asarco Zinc SmelterZincPlant

Every working recorded in Potter County

Storms near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cliffside in 10 storm reports in 2007: 10 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
June 2007HailCliffside-Reported near Loop 335 (Hollywood Road) and Tascosa Road.
October 2007HailCliffside-Reported five miles north of Amarillo.
October 2007HailCliffside-Hail reported in Chaparral Hills about six miles north northwest of Amarillo.
October 2007HailCliffside-Reported six miles northwest of Amarillo.
October 2007HailCliffside-Reported on the western side of the Rolling Hills subdivision or eight miles northwest of Amarillo.
October 2007HailCliffside-Reported eight miles northwest of Amarillo.
October 2007HailCliffside-Reported near River Road which is eight miles north northwest of Amarillo or in the southwest part of Rolling Hills.
October 2007HailCliffside-Hail accumulated on the ground near the Wal-Mart at Tascosa Road about six miles west northwest of Amarillo.
June 2007HailCliffside-no account filed
June 2007HailCliffside-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Potter 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
Bishop Hills1.0 miles11
Gentry3.8 miles11
Soncy5.3 miles8
Pleasant Valley5.4 miles11
Amarillo6.1 miles8
Juilliard7.5 miles11
Dumas Junction7.8 miles8
Bushland8.6 miles7

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 CliffsideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076439The 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 1354664. 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.