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Delrose, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Bettie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75644. It stands on Holmes Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bettie quadrangle.

Delrose within Upshur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 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

701 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 701 fires within 5 miles of Delrose between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,697 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 17 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 burning501
Missing data/not specified/undetermined103
Natural23
Power generation/transmission/distribution18
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking13
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service190329
9 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14-0299
9 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12-262
9 September 2012Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6237
9 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12-263
8 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-0320
8 September 2015Natural6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15-0282
8 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 640

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upshur County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delrose in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindDelrose$100,000Several trees were downed north of town. Two trees fell across mobile homes. There were no report of injuries.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindDelrose$50,000Numerous trees were downed on Hwy. 155 between Gilmer and Hwy. 259. Also, high winds tore down two H-frame transmission structures in Gilmer resulting in power outages to over 3500 customers.
April 2025Flash FloodDelrose-High water covered multiple roads in Gilmer.

Every storm recorded in Upshur 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
Bettie1.6 miles12
Union Hill2.4 miles12
Friendship3.2 miles12
Concord3.6 miles12
Bethlehem3.9 miles12
Gilmer4.0 miles12
Enon4.0 miles13
Lone Pine4.8 miles12

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 Q122590112The 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 1378208. 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.