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Cookville, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Cookville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75558. The Survey maps it on the Cookville quadrangle. It stands 433 feet above sea level.

Cookville within Titus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

332 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 332 fires within 5 miles of Cookville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,814 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning242
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use22
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2638 CR 4315
8 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1800 CR 4275
6 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-925
4 September 2010Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 67 2 MI E OF COOKVILLE
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 363
29 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service168 E I30
29 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILLIAMS BRUSH PILE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Titus County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cookville in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
March 2013Thunderstorm WindCookville$5,000The roof was blown off a mobile home east northeast of Mount Pleasant.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCookville-A tree was blown down on FM 1000.
April 2020HailCookville-Half dollar size hail fell along Highway 67 near the Cookville community. .
March 2016Thunderstorm WindCookville-Trees down near the intersection of County Road 4030 and County Road 4025.
June 2011HailCookville-Hail reported at a local convenience store in Cookville, Texas.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCookville-Trees were downed adjacent to a convenience store in Cookville, Texas.
October 2010Tornado (EF0)Cookville-This EF0 tornado touched down along Hwy. 67 and County Road 3325. Two large trees were snapped along the north side of the highway and other small limbs were downed. The tornado continued northeast, crossing County Road 3314 in Morris County knocking down numerous mid sized and large limbs before lifting north of County Road 3314. Maximum winds were estimated between 65 and 70 mph. A fence sustained minor damage from on of the large trees which fell near Hwy. 67.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindCookville-Trees and powerlines were downed near Cookville, Texas.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindCookville-Several trees blown down in the Cookville community east of Mount Pleasant.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindCookville-Hwy 44 north of Hwy 67 was blocked by fallen trees.

Every storm recorded in Titus 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
Old Union3.2 miles10
Lone Star3.6 miles9
Liberty Hill3.7 miles10
Center Grove4.0 miles9
Argo5.3 miles8
Gladewater6.3 miles10
Mount Pleasant6.4 miles10
Roeder6.9 miles9

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 CookvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5167222The 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 1333275. 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.