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Deanwright, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Palestine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75801. The Survey maps it on the Southeast Palestine quadrangle. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Deanwright within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Deanwright between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,753 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 11 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 burning136
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLMAN
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceELK90088
8 September 2009Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 210
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 227
8 September 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 228
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 523
6 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service200 FIELD ST
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 219

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deanwright in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2016Flash FloodDeanwright1 killedA 30 year old male died in flood waters on Anderson County Road 370.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindDeanwright$10,000More than fifty trees were broken or uprooted in the Concord community.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindDeanwright-Emergency management reported trees damaged, snapped and uprooted around Lost Prairie Lake.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindDeanwright-Amateur radio reported that trees approximately 24 inches in diameter were blown over near Chambers Cemetery on County Road 153.
April 2011HailDeanwright-Quarter size hail fell at the intersection of Highway 84 and County Road 385 southeast of Palestine.

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Crystal Lake2.0 miles10
Kossuth2.4 miles11
Wells Creek4.3 miles13
Palestine5.0 miles13
Jarvis5.3 miles11
Alderbranch5.6 miles11
Cronin5.7 miles10
Herring7.7 miles11

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 DeanwrightAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21791409The 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 1379644. 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.