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Concord, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Mount Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75681. The Survey maps it on the Caledonia quadrangle.

Concord within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Concord between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,464 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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 burning90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 478
4 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRENEE ELLIOTT
28 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePERRY STONE
26 September 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 565
17 September 1993Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 103

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Concord in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
February 2013Tornado (EF0)Concord$5,000The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey and determined that a weak EF0 tornado touched down 5 miles east northeast of Mount Enterprise, Texas. Damage consisted of several trees snapped and an above-ground swimming pool was wrapped around a tree along FM 95.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindConcord-Numerous trees and powerlines down.

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
Lawsonville1.5 miles11
Caledonia3.3 miles11
Arlam4.0 miles11
Bryce4.4 miles11
Mount Enterprise4.9 miles11
Minden9.2 miles12
Sulphur Springs9.5 miles11
Brachfield9.5 miles12

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 Q85753764The 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 1379584. 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.