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Cuthand, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Bogata census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75417. The Survey maps it on the Cuthand quadrangle.

Cuthand within Red River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

101 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Cuthand between 1993 and 2019, burning about 2,385 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 6 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 burning64
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
3 September 2011Recreation and ceremony89 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 528
3 September 2006Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 632
28 September 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2006Debris and open burning56 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 631
19 September 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 610
19 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 429
1 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILLIAMS
9 August 2005Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 259

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red River County

Storms near this place

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuthand in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 4 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
February 2018Flash FloodCuthand-FM 1487 closed from the Maple community to County Road 412 due to flooding.
November 2015Flash FloodCuthand-FM 1487 south of Clarksville, Texas was flooded and closed.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Cuthand-A damage survey concluded that an EF0 tornado touched down about 10 miles south of Clarksville in Red River County, Texas. The tornado touched down along County Road 4610, where a few trees were uprooted. The tornado traveled north northeast just east of County Road 910, where additional trees were snapped and uprooted. This tornado continued across County Road 4605, snapping large limbs off of several more trees before lifting in a heavily wooded area. The maximum winds are estimated at 65-75 mph.
May 2009Flash FloodCuthand-Farm to Market 1487 was closed due to excessive heavy rainfall.
May 2009Flash FloodCuthand-FM 1487 near the Cuthand community was closed from flash flooding.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindCuthand-A tree was downed across FM 1487.
April 2012HailCuthand-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Red River 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
Maple3.2 miles9
Pine Branch3.2 miles8
Sherry5.8 miles8
Peters Prairie5.9 miles8
Aikin Grove6.1 miles8
Rosalie6.5 miles8
Johntown6.8 miles8
Harts Bluff7.2 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 CuthandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28131872The 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 1379624. 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.