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Easterly, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Franklin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77856. It stands on North Mineral Creek. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle. It stands 387 feet above sea level.

Easterly within Robertson 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

35 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Easterly between 2006 and 2020, burning about 500 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSANDY HILL
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNAVASOTA VALLEY
4 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTFS 17-0000104
27 September 2012Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOXIE CHAPEL
16 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1940 FIRE
17 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTFS 17-0000096
8 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSANDER RD
16 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceROLKE RANCH GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Robertson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Easterly in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEasterly$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down large trees and power poles near Jack Corn Rd and East Highway 79 near Easterly.
April 2009Tornado (EF0)Easterly$4,000A brief tornado near Easterly tore down trees, fences, and power lines.
March 2020HailEasterly-Half inch to dime sized hail was reported near Easterly.
March 2014HailEasterly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Robertson 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
Ridge4.3 miles11
New Baden4.4 miles10
Owensville7.5 miles7
Franklin7.7 miles10
Bald Prairie8.5 miles10
Eaton9.4 miles7
Petteway9.8 miles7
Nesbitt11.3 miles7

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 EasterlyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5329934The 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 1356768. 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.