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Coesfield, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Callisburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76273. It stands on Hickory Creek. The Survey maps it on the Horseshoe Bend quadrangle.

Coesfield within Cooke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

62 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Coesfield between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,156 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined28
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
6 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use39 acresChickasaw AgencySTEVEN'S SPRINGS
4 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEXTER FIRE
4 August 2008Arson/incendiarism9.3 acresChickasaw AgencyADDINGTON BEND
28 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 110
26 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALNUT BEND
26 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooke County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coesfield in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2023: 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
August 2020HailCoesfield-A public report indicated quarter-sized hail approximately 8 miles north of the city of Callisburg, TX.
June 2023HailCoesfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cooke 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
Walnut Bend3.2 miles13
Dexter3.6 miles13
Sturgeon5.2 miles13
Balm5.7 miles12
Callisburg8.4 miles13
Custer City9.4 miles13
Sivells Bend10.4 miles13
Oak Ridge11.8 miles13

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 CoesfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122569792The 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 1379567. 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.