Elton, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dickens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79229. The Survey maps it on the Dickens North quadrangle.

Elton within Dickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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.

1954 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1967 USGS Dickens North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Dickens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

14 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Elton between 2008 and 2016, burning about 464 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Debris and open burning	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
25 September 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KERR
12 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	AFTON
5 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	US70/CR144
9 July 2016	Natural	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	J. MOORE
16 June 2012	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KERR
16 June 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	E. AFTON
2 May 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
31 March 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickens County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elton in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2017: 1 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Elton	-	A USDA employee forwarded photos of damage to a few small outbuildings at a ranch northwest of Dickens. The roof of a small pole barn was blown a short distance, while another roof had a small section peeled off. The damage was deemed consistent with wind speeds of 70 to 80 mph.
May 2013	Hail	Elton	-	A trained spotter estimated golf ball size hail five miles north of Dickens. No damage was reported.

Every storm recorded in Dickens 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Afton	4.2 miles	7
Glenn	5.3 miles	7
Croton	5.3 miles	8
Dickens	5.7 miles	8
East Afton	6.0 miles	8
McAdoo	9.0 miles	7
Soldiers Mound (historical)	12.6 miles	8
Spur	15.8 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379722. 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.