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Edgar, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cuero census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77954. The Survey maps it on the Edgar quadrangle.

Edgar within DeWitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

34 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Edgar between 2006 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. None 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2

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 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 77A / CHRISTIAN RD
5 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRAIN TRESSEL FIRE OLD YOAKUM ROAD
17 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTREE FIRE 183 N
5 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 77-A / LOCKHART CEMETARY RD
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS HWY 183 N GRASSFIRE
25 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS HWY 183 N JUST PAST LOCKHART CEMETERY RD
17 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeWitt County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgar in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
January 2023LightningEdgar$50,000Lightning from a thunderstorm ignited a fire at an oil tank battery northeast of Cuero.
April 2023HailEdgar-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail north of Cuero.
May 2023Flash FloodEdgar-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding of low water crossings on Hwy 183 north of Cuero.
March 2012Flash FloodEdgar-Slow moving thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flash flooding near Yoakum. There were numerous locations along FM 682 closed due to water over the road between Yoakum and Highway 77.
April 2012HailEdgar-no account filed
May 2010HailEdgar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DeWitt 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
Concrete3.9 miles10
Buchel4.4 miles10
Stratton5.8 miles10
Yoakum7.2 miles9
Petersville7.5 miles9
Pearl City7.5 miles9
Hochheim8.0 miles10
Cuero8.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379701. 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.