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Climax, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Nacogdoches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75961. The Survey maps it on the Redland quadrangle.

Climax within Nacogdoches County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Climax between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,140 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 10 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 burning101
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
7 September 1993Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7100
4 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRAS FIRE
28 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
20 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7113
19 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
19 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 135

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this place

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Climax in 6 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 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
May 2023Flash FloodClimax-Multiple streets were flooded and closed across the south side of Nacogdoches. Flooding of roads were widespread across Nacogdoches County.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindClimax-A tree was blown down at the 400 block of CR 635.
January 2022HailClimax-Quarter size hail fell just north of the Angelina/Nacogdoches County line on Highway 59.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindClimax-A large tree was blown down near the intersection of Highway 7 and County Road 761.
April 2019FloodClimax-Water was across Highway 7 west of FM 2782.
November 2015Flash FloodClimax-Numerous road closures including CR. 271, 280, 274, 833, 723, 220, 250, 106 as well as FM 2864 and FM 955 south.

Every storm recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Lacyville4.7 miles12
Harmony4.9 miles11
Poe5.1 miles15
Bonaldo6.4 miles11
Plainview7.0 miles12
Hayward Junction7.3 miles13
Fredonia Hill7.3 miles13
Orton Hill8.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381666. 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.