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Corbet, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Corsicana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75110. The Survey maps it on the Corbet quadrangle.

Corbet within Navarro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

213 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Corbet between 2004 and 2020, burning about 1,263 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning98
Missing data/not specified/undetermined67
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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 2008Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSW COUNTY ROAD 0020 / SW COUNTY ROAD 0030 (41)
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 31 WEST
3 September 2005Debris and open burning125 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6234 W STATE HIGHWAY 31,(44)
26 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use18 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSW3080

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corbet in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindCorbet$10,000Trees down and power outages reported west of Retreat.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCorbet$5,000A social media report indicated that multiple trees were blown down near the city of Corbet, TX.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCorbet-Thunderstorm winds downed trees. No dollar estimate of damage was reported.

Every storm recorded in Navarro 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
Oak Valley2.2 miles9
Pickett3.2 miles10
Drane3.8 miles9
Retreat3.8 miles10
Angus5.5 miles10
Mustang5.7 miles10
Purdon5.8 miles7
Silver City5.9 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q122572664The 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 1378157. 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.