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English, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Annona-Avery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75554. The Survey maps it on the English quadrangle.

English within Red River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

79 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of English between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,695 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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 burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2011Debris and open burning18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARTER#1
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARTER#2
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use250 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2004Debris and open burning80 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 189
3 September 2002Debris and open burning60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 175
3 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 356
29 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined68 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6159
24 September 2006Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red River County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of English: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Red River County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names English in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 2016Thunderstorm WindEnglish$10,000A roof was damaged to a home on County Road 3300 northeast of Annona. Large tree limbs were downed as well.
August 2020Flash FloodEnglish-High water covered FM 114.
January 2015Flash FloodEnglish-Bridges were flooded east of Clarksville, Texas including 114 near English and 1158 near Whiterock.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindEnglish-Trees were downed across FM 114 between the English community and the Bowie County line.

Every storm recorded in Red River 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
Caney3.2 miles10
White Rock4.0 miles10
Mena (historical)4.3 miles9
Annona4.4 miles9
Reeds Settlement6.3 miles10
Savannah (historical)6.4 miles8
Avery6.7 miles8
Madras6.8 miles10

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 EnglishAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5378139The 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 1357028. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.