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Climax, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Farmersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75407. The Survey maps it on the Culleoka quadrangle. It stands 554 feet above sea level.

Climax within Collin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

50 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Climax between 2005 and 2020, burning about 232 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 500 GRASS FIRE
26 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 565 GRASS FIRE
24 September 2013Fireworks22 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLACK GATE FIRE
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2014Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 565 MA GRASS FIRE
13 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWELDER FIRE
12 September 2015Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 500 GRASS FIRE
8 August 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 78 GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin 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 Climax: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Collin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Climax in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 2 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
November 2024HailClimax$5,000Trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail northeast of Princeton.
April 2017HailClimax-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail just northeast of Princeton, TX.

Every storm recorded in Collin 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
Princeton3.1 miles10
Verona3.4 miles7
Altoga3.8 miles10
Snow Hill5.0 miles7
Biggers (historical)5.2 miles11
Milligan5.3 miles11
Fayburg5.5 miles7
Farmersville5.5 miles10

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 ClimaxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076440The 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 1378132. 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.