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Elm Flat, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kerens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75144. The Survey maps it on the Powell quadrangle.

Elm Flat within Navarro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

313 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Elm Flat between 2003 and 2020, burning about 2,077 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 burning121
Missing data/not specified/undetermined93
Equipment and vehicle use55
Smoking12
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14-090914
8 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1411959
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1112193
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3072 BURN BAN
7 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNW 2020 & HWY 22 ( JIMMY DADE)
5 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceC13-11697
5 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13363

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elm Flat in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2024HailElm Flat$8,000Public report of golf ball hail near Mildred, relayed by emergency management.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindElm Flat$1,000At least one tree was uprooted and another tree splintered in the Bluffview Estates on Richland Chambers Lake.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindElm Flat-Emergency management reported numerous trees either uprooted or snapped between the cities of Chatfield and Mildred, TX.

Every storm recorded in Navarro 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
Powell2.7 miles9
Goodlow Park4.9 miles10
Eureka4.9 miles9
Kerens5.1 miles10
Mildred5.3 miles10
Bazette7.0 miles9
Navarro7.2 miles7
Round Prairie7.3 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378253. 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.