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Cyclone, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Bell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76519. It stands on Possum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Seaton quadrangle.

Cyclone within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Cyclone between 2005 and 2020, burning about 281 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
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
16 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015-122
8 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use170 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTWEETY
4 August 2009Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRED RANGER
4 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 June 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 53 FIRE
31 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEAF MAREK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cyclone in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 2 hail, 2 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
April 1996Tornado (F2)Cyclone$60,000no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindCyclone$5,000no account filed
March 2022HailCyclone-Amateur radio reported nickel sized hail near the intersection of FM 1671 and FM 485.
September 1996HailCyclone-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindCyclone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bell 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
Zabcikville1.5 miles14
Red Ranger2.1 miles14
Ocker3.0 miles14
Meeks3.0 miles14
Airville3.5 miles14
Leedale3.8 miles14
Seaton4.0 miles14
New Colony4.6 miles14

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 CycloneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113331341The 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 1379626. 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.