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Etter, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Dumas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79029. The Survey maps it on the Cactus East quadrangle.

Etter within Moore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

31 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Etter between 2006 and 2018, burning about 123 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning4
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINNONA
9 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDUTCHER476
5 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWATER TOWER
6 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePALODURO
6 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePALODURO2
3 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH 287
24 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEBRUCE
24 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCITY HALL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Moore County

Storms near this place

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Etter in 18 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 12 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 2012Flash FloodEtter$100,000The Moore County Emergency Manager reported that County Road E and Farm to Market Road 281 were closed due to flowing water. There were numerous homes and businesses that were flooded in the Etter and Cactus, Texas areas. There were no reports of injuries.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindEtter$70,000Report of roof blown off a building.
May 2023HailEtter-Road was lightly covered with hail.
April 2020Funnel CloudEtter-This report of a funnel cloud 5 miles southwest of Sunray was received via mPING.
May 2020HailEtter-Penny sized hail was observed 3 miles south-southeast of Cactus. The hail covered US Highway 287.
June 2019FloodEtter-High water reported on Farm to Market Rd 119.
June 2019HailEtter-Penny to nickel size hail was falling at time of report.
May 2016HailEtter-Quarter size hail fell one mile south-southwest of Cactus.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindEtter-Sheriffs office reported 2 semis rolled over at intersection of US 287 and County Rd E. 2 or 3 power poles also knocked over on Country Rd E.
July 2014HailEtter-Discrete supercells began transitioning to a linear structure during the late evening hours of the 16th. As this cluster of storms neared the town of Cactus (Moore County), a member of the public 4 miles west-southwest of Cactus (Moore County) reported golf ball size hail (1.75 inches). This hail damaged corn and sorghum crops along Highway 281. After producing this hail the cluster of storms continued to move to the southeast.
July 2014Tornado (EF0)Etter-A cluster of thunderstorms went through multiple mergers over Moore County during the evening hours of the 16th. One cell merger 5 miles west-southwest of the town of Cactus (Moore County) provided additional tightening of the updraft and allowed a brief tornado to form. This tornado formed over open area and caused no damage. However, multiple trained storm spotter reported the brief tornado. The estimated wind speed was 65 mph. After producing the brief tornado, the merging storms transitioned into an linear structure and moved southeastward across the southern Texas Panhandle.
May 2021HailEtter-no account filed
June 2019HailEtter-no account filed
May 2017HailEtter-no account filed
June 2017HailEtter-no account filed
July 2009HailEtter-no account filed
May 2004HailEtter-no account filed
May 2002HailEtter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Moore 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
Cactus1.8 miles6
Bryden2.4 miles6
Machovec5.8 miles6
Sheerin Junction6.2 miles6
Sheerin7.3 miles6
Sunray9.3 miles6
Dumas11.2 miles6
Stallwitz Lake15.0 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1357091. 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.