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DeBerry, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the De Berry-Deadwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75639. The Survey maps it on the De Berry quadrangle. It stands 361 feet above sea level.

DeBerry within Panola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of DeBerry between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,458 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 7 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 burning76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking5
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
9 September 2013Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6304
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined89 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 230
8 September 1999Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 222
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Panola County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names DeBerry in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1994Thunderstorm WindDeBerry$5,000Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds on Highway 9.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindDeBerry$5,000Trees were blown down by high winds.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindDeBerry$500Numerous trees were blown down by high winds.
May 1994HailDeBerry-Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds on Highway 9.
April 1994HailDeBerry-Numerous trees were blown down by high winds.
April 1993HailDeBerry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Panola 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
De Berry0.1 miles13
Midyett4.7 miles17
Panola5.5 miles15
River Hill5.8 miles17
Horton6.4 miles13
Centennial7.6 miles17
Bethany8.1 miles15
Hudson Mast9.4 miles13

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 DeBerryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5243862The 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 2034843. 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.