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Connor, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Madisonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77864. It stands on Sand Branch. The Survey maps it on the Connor quadrangle.

Connor within Madison 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Connor between 1992 and 2019, burning about 997 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
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 1998Smoking50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE #45
5 September 1997Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 840
20 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE #51
6 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBILLY & ISABELL POTTER
31 August 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 817

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Connor in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2008Thunderstorm WindConnor$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed a power pole along Highway 21.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindConnor$2,000Downed trees were reported along FM 1428.
March 2025HailConnor-Hail was reported via MPING near Connor.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindConnor-A large tree was downed near the intersection of FM 1428 and Highway 21.
April 2023HailConnor-Quarter sized hail was observed.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindConnor-Wind gust was measured at K5PNV.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Jenkins2.6 miles10
Madisonville5.3 miles11
Midway5.4 miles10
Elwood6.5 miles10
Old Elwood7.4 miles10
Dingerville7.7 miles10
Antioch8.9 miles11
Laceola9.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379586. 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.