BlockElwood, Texas
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Ravenna-Telephone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75447. It stands on Narvaugh Creek. The Survey maps it on the Telephone quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched 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 Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Wade quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Telephone quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
90 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Elwood between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,171 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning | 54 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 10 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | LAKE FANNIN |
| 23 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 2006 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GEORGE & PATRICIA REID |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elwood in 1 storm report in 2021: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2021 | Hail | Elwood | $50,000 | A social media report indicated 2-inch diameter hail in the city of Elwood, TX. |
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.
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 Elwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5368306 | The 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 1379724. 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.