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Cut, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lovelady census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75835. The Survey maps it on the Lovelady North quadrangle. It stands 371 feet above sea level.

Cut within Houston 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Cut between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,685 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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 burning96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2013-327
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAUSTONIO ASSIST
30 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7097
30 September 1992Arson/incendiarism25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 378
25 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9047
20 September 2015Debris and open burning11 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7112
2 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 189

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cut in 1 storm report in 2024: 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCut-Trees were downed on multiple roads, including FM 2110, FM 1733, SH 7W, FM 227 W, and FM 2544.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Lone Pine2.8 miles9
Mustang Prairie (historical)4.6 miles10
Cooper5.5 miles9
Pearsons Chapel5.8 miles9
Center Grove6.4 miles9
Crockett6.8 miles10
Lovelady6.8 miles9
Hopewell6.8 miles10

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 CutAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5196593The 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 1355497. 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.