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Emmett, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Blooming Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76641. The Survey maps it on the Irene quadrangle. It stands 479 feet above sea level.

Emmett within Navarro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

150 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Emmett between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,449 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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 burning66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2

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
6 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALVIS PRATER
4 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 744 SMOKE INVESTIGATION
28 September 2015Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE-MUTUAL AID
26 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service639N FIRE
21 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALFRED MARTIN FIRE
17 September 2011Smoking1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN/A
10 September 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1311947

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emmett in 1 storm report in 1996: 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
March 1996HailEmmett-no account filed

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
Brushie Prairie2.0 miles8
Pelham2.0 miles8
Raleigh5.2 miles8
Spring Hill5.6 miles7
Navarro Mills6.2 miles7
Frost6.4 miles8
Dresden6.6 miles8
Dawson7.7 miles7

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 EmmettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5373506The 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 1378263. 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.