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Cuthbert, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Westbrook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79512. The Survey maps it on the Cuthbert quadrangle. It stands 2,251 feet above sea level.

Cuthbert within Mitchell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

20 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Cuthbert between 2006 and 2018, burning about 555 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1
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
21 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTRAIN
18 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTATE OF TEXAS
1 August 2008Natural50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use200 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mitchell County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuthbert in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 12 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCuthbert$13,000A thunderstorm moved across Mitchell County and produced wind damage near Cuthbert. A barn was blown down from the thunderstorm winds. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindCuthbert$7,000Severe thunderstorm winds damaged a barn, split a Chinaberry tree, and blew down power lines.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCuthbert$5,000Emergency management reports a hitched trailer overturned on a property. Wind gust speed and property damage costs are estimations.
June 2019HailCuthbert-A thunderstorm moved across Mitchell County and produced quarter sized hail and 60 mph winds three miles northwest of Cuthbert.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCuthbert-A thunderstorm moved across Mitchell County and produced a 70 mph wind gust two miles northwest of Cuthbert.
May 2006HailCuthbert-Baseball to softball size hail fell in a swath along Farm to Market Road 670 from Cuthbert to just south of Westbrook.
May 2006HailCuthbert-Baseball to softball size hail fell in a swath along Farm to Market Road 670 from Cuthbert to just south of Westbrook.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCuthbert-A storm chaser reported thunderstorm wind gusts of 63 miles per hour in Cuthbert late on the evening of the first.
June 1999Tornado (F0)Cuthbert-Brief tornado touchdown.
May 2021HailCuthbert-no account filed
May 2021HailCuthbert-no account filed
May 2021HailCuthbert-no account filed
June 2018HailCuthbert-no account filed
March 2017HailCuthbert-no account filed
June 2017HailCuthbert-no account filed
June 2017HailCuthbert-no account filed
June 2003HailCuthbert-no account filed
March 1997HailCuthbert-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mitchell 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
Westbrook8.8 miles8
Buford9.4 miles9
Colorado City11.0 miles9
Iatan11.2 miles9
Valley View13.6 miles9
Spade16.3 miles10
Loraine17.6 miles8
Lowe22.2 miles8

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 CuthbertAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19461245The 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 1378196. 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.