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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.

Davis Prairie within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

73 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1246 & LCR 758
19 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service919201601
18 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service918201702
10 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service910201701
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8082
25 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8252018
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service82405
23 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2019Thunderstorm WindDavis Prairie$5,000Emergency 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 2023Tornado (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.

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Thornton2.6 miles6
Beulah2.9 miles6
Box Church3.8 miles7
Red Hill4.7 miles6
Old Union5.8 miles7
Pleasant Grove5.9 miles6
Groesbeck7.2 miles8
Oletha7.3 miles7

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 Q122539544The 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.