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Elysian Fields, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Waskom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75642. The Survey maps it on the De Berry quadrangle. It stands 341 feet above sea level.

Elysian Fields within Harrison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

184 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Elysian Fields between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,879 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 13 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 burning95
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2013Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6304
8 September 1999Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD WOODLEY ROAD COMMAND
7 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRIBBLE COMMAND
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 9 COMMAND
28 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 31 COMMAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elysian Fields in 3 storm reports in 1994: 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
November 1994Thunderstorm WindElysian Fields$50,000High winds blew a tree down onto a house.
January 1994Thunderstorm WindElysian Fields$500Tree limbs were blown down. Pea-size hail also occurred.
May 1994HailElysian Fields-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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
Stricklin Springs4.7 miles14
Crossroads6.2 miles14
Gill8.5 miles13
Jonesville9.7 miles16
Waskom10.0 miles16
Scottsville12.2 miles14
Darco13.7 miles14
Jasper Heights14.3 miles12

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 Elysian FieldsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5368564The 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 1335420. 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.