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Deport, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Deport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75435. The Survey maps it on the Deport quadrangle.

Deport within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

92 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Deport between 1995 and 2019, burning about 1,116 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2011Arson/incendiarism25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
29 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 271N FIRE 9/28
19 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 271N FIRE 9/16
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEPORT MA GRASS FIRE 9/10
29 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deport in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 13 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
September 1996Tornado (F0)Deport$75,000no account filed
April 2012HailDeport$10,000Golf ball sized hail was reported 5 miles south-southwest of Deport.
September 2001Flash FloodDeport$10,000Many streets were barricaded due to high water. One truck was heavily damaged from being swept off Main Street. Deport received nearly 11 inches of rain in the last 7 days.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindDeport$5,000Emergency management reported a metal roof partially torn off of a building in Deport, TX.
October 2010HailDeport$5,000Nickel and quarter size hail was covering the ground in Deport.
April 2021HailDeport$4,000Reported via mPing.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindDeport$3,000A public report indicated 3-inch diameter limbs and a few power poles blown down in the city of Deport, TX.
June 2023HailDeport-Golf ball size hail was reported in Deport.
May 2020HailDeport-A public MPING report indicated quarter sized hail in the city of Deport, TX.
June 2019HailDeport-A public report indicated quarter-size hail in the city of Deport, TX.
March 2014HailDeport-Quarter sized hail was reported 1 mile south of Deport.
March 2014HailDeport-Quarter sized hail was reported 4 miles southwest of Deport.
January 2010HailDeport-Quarter size hail was reported in the town of Deport.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindDeport-Several trees and large limbs were blown down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindDeport-Wind damage of an unknown type was reported by the county Sheriff.
November 2000Flash FloodDeport-Widespread street flooding was reported.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindDeport-Large trees were blown down by high winds.
April 1999HailDeport-no account filed
June 1997HailDeport-no account filed
September 1996HailDeport-no account filed
November 1994HailDeport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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
Lone Oak2.8 miles8
Milton3.2 miles8
Hoover4.3 miles8
Pattonville5.5 miles8
Minter5.6 miles8
Clardy6.2 miles8
Byrdtown6.5 miles8
Cunningham7.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1373377. 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.