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Electric City, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Borger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79007. It stands on Cottonwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Borger quadrangle.

Electric City within Hutchinson 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

203 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Electric City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 484,678 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined109
Power generation/transmission/distribution31
Equipment and vehicle use17
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural8
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2010Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLITTLE MUD
4 September 2009Natural4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIGHTNING
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDCP FIRE
29 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJONES FIRE
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceEARLS 1559
29 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEST 3RD CEDAR FIRE
24 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceYET AGAIN
20 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUDDY ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hutchinson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Electric City: 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Borger Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Baker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Borger Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dees and ParkerSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Hutchinson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Electric City in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 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
June 2007HailElectric City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hutchinson 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
Phillips2.9 miles8
Borger3.0 miles8
Bunavista4.3 miles8
Philrich4.7 miles8
Stekoll Camp5.0 miles6
Oil City5.9 miles9
Dial6.1 miles6
Sanford6.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1356896. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.