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Erwin, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Anderson-Bedias census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77830. The Survey maps it on the Navasota quadrangle.

Erwin within Grimes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

65 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Erwin between 2005 and 2019, burning about 296 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
21 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 405
20 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHNSON
19 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH 90
6 August 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH 90
30 July 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 3090

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grimes County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Erwin: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Navasota PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grimes County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Erwin in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindErwin-Trees were downed on multiple roads, including CR 109, FM 149, FM 390, and Highway 30.
March 2018HailErwin-Pea to penny sized hail was observed.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindErwin-Trees were downed around the intersection of CR 403 and CR 404.

Every storm recorded in Grimes 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
Piedmont3.0 miles10
Anderson3.9 miles11
Navasota6.9 miles10
Carlos7.6 miles10
Apolonia8.0 miles11
Roans Prairie9.2 miles10
Ferguson Crossing10.6 miles9
Keith11.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379733. 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.