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Concord, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the New Summerfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75789. The Survey maps it on the Griffin quadrangle. It stands 413 feet above sea level.

Concord within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Concord between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,022 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 2 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 burning115
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural14
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism2
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
7 September 2014Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4608 FIRE
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4620 FIRE
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 856 AND CR 4716
5 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service378 CR 4608 FIRE
4 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2274 N
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND FIRE
26 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6797 FM 856 FIRE
23 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2173 CR 4701

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Concord: 5 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Ball Clay, Clay, Kaolin, Bentonite. 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
Troup PitKaolin, BentoniteProducerSedimentary
TroupeClayProducer
A D Green PitBall ClayPast Producer
Henderson Clay Products Pit EastBall ClayProducer
Henderson Clay Products Pit WestBall ClayProducer
Reliance Clay Products PitBall ClayProducer
Reliance Clay Products PitBall ClayPast Producer
Southern Clay Products PitBall ClayPast Producer
W.A. White No.1 & No.2 PitsBall ClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Concord in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2015Flash FloodConcord-Highway 856 south of the Concord Community was flooded and closed.
February 1993HailConcord-Trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind.
February 1993HailConcord-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Henrys Chapel2.5 miles15
Griffin2.7 miles15
Blackjack3.3 miles15
Emmaus3.8 miles15
Brushy5.5 miles15
Gould5.6 miles15
Pine Hill5.7 miles11
New Summerfield6.7 miles11

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 ConcordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076446The 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 1378149. 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.