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Crow, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Hawkins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75765. It stands on Parker Branch. The Survey maps it on the Crow quadrangle.

Crow within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Crow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,561 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 19 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 burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 563
24 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2014Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNONE
20 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 14 N FM 2869 110310
13 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3440/3450 HLVFD 110292
10 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3420/CR 3440 HLVFD 110289

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crow in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 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
April 2017Thunderstorm WindCrow-Trees were blown down near the intersection of Highway 80 and Highway 778.
March 2010HailCrow-Hail reported at Holly Lake near Hawkins, Texas.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Fada0.9 miles12
Fouke2.1 miles12
Angler3.3 miles12
Hoard4.5 miles12
Hawkins5.9 miles13
New Hope6.4 miles12
Hainesville7.6 miles12
Pine Mills8.7 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 CrowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5189063The 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 1378188. 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.