Davis Prairie, Texas
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Thornton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76687. It stands on Keel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thornton quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Thornton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
73 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Davis Prairie between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,066 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined | 33 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1246 & LCR 758 |
| 19 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 919201601 |
| 18 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 918201702 |
| 10 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 910201701 |
| 8 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8082 |
| 25 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8252018 |
| 24 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 82405 |
| 23 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Davis Prairie in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2023: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Davis Prairie | $5,000 | Emergency management reported power poles being snapped from a large tree branch falling on them. This occurred along County Road 735 between 5 and 8 miles south of the city of Groesbeck, TX. |
| April 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Davis Prairie | - | A brief tornado was reported crossing FM 1246 between Thornton and Oletha. The exact location is unknown but is close to the plotted track. This tornado was the third of 4 brief tornadoes a parent supercell produced as it moved across Falls and Limestone counties. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thornton | 2.6 miles | 6 | |
| Beulah | 2.9 miles | 6 | |
| Box Church | 3.8 miles | 7 | |
| Red Hill | 4.7 miles | 6 | |
| Old Union | 5.8 miles | 7 | |
| Pleasant Grove | 5.9 miles | 6 | |
| Groesbeck | 7.2 miles | 8 | |
| Oletha | 7.3 miles | 7 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122539544 | The 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 1379641. 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.



