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Delwin, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Paducah South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79248. The Survey maps it on the Grow NW quadrangle.

Delwin within Cottle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 8 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

21 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Delwin between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,895 acres in total. 9 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
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
28 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE - SHAVOR HARVEY
28 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2011Natural50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJACOBS FIRE
3 August 2011Arson/incendiarism60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDELWIN - CO RD 266
20 August 2019Natural70 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJACOBSON 2
19 August 2019Natural12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJACOBSON
19 August 2019Natural350 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSIDE OATS
6 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY.83 S.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cottle County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delwin in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2005: 6 hail. 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
July 2004HailDelwin$75,000A storm chaser reported three inch diameter hail. The hail swath was up to 1.5 miles wide. Windows were broken, siding to homes was destroyed, and roofs were damaged by the hail.
May 2003HailDelwin$20,000Storm spotters affiliated with the Paducah Fire Department reported golfball size hail.
June 2005HailDelwin-no account filed
April 2003HailDelwin-no account filed
April 2000HailDelwin-no account filed
April 2000HailDelwin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cottle 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
Ginsite5.3 miles8
Sneedville6.4 miles8
Valley View8.1 miles8
Chalk9.3 miles8
Narcisso9.4 miles8
Paducah10.7 miles8
Hackberry13.9 miles8
Jacobs (historical)17.1 miles8

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 DelwinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127691237The 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 1380841. 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.