BlockEthel, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Southwest Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76233. The Survey maps it on the Ethel quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1901 USGS Denison quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Whitesboro quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1982 USGS Ethel quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
47 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Ethel between 2005 and 2018, burning about 488 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HOGTOWN RD |
| 17 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OLD TOWN ROAD |
| 13 August 2016 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BOREN RD |
| 9 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MINNIS @ COBBLER RD |
| 4 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | VAUGHN LN GRASS FIRE |
| 30 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DAVIS COMMAND |
| 16 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | O HANLON RD FIRE |
| 16 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | O'HANLAN @ SHOOK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ethel in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ethel | 1 hurt, $50,000 | To the east of the tornado, thunderstorm winds damaged roofs and storage buildings east of Collinsville. |
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Ethel | $18,000 | Emergency management reported an Amazon driver stalled out due to Range Creek overflowing its banks, around the 700th block of Horseshoe Road between Tioga and Collinsville. |
| April 2015 | Flash Flood | Ethel | $1,000 | Multiple roads in SW Grayson County were closed due to water over the roadways. Horseshoe Road southeast of Collinsville was one of the closures, which was closed into the overnight hours. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Ethel | - | Ping pong ball size hail was reported on FM 901 five miles south of State Highway 56. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Ethel | - | Grayson County Sheriff's Department reported high water over FM 902 at Cobler Rd just east of the city of Collinsville, 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1357088. 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.