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Eunice, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Tulia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79088. The Survey maps it on the Edmonson NE quadrangle.

Eunice within Swisher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

171 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Eunice between 2005 and 2020, burning about 4,313 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined124
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2015-43
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2013-52
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2013-51
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2013-53
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2013-54
15 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2017-69
15 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2016-59

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Swisher County

Storms near this place

6 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eunice in 6 storm reports between 2019 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2023HailEunice-An off duty NWS employee reported quarter size hail in rural eastern Swisher County.
June 2023Flash FloodEunice-The same slow moving storms that brought intense rainfall and flash flooding to Parmer County also moved over Swisher County. Similarly, the intense rainfall brought over an inch of rainfall in less than 20 minutes. The Tulia Police Department reported that several roads in town were flooded along with a few County Roads along US Highway 87.
May 2022HailEunice-A storm chaser reported hail up to two inches in diameter southeast of Tulia along Texas State Highway 86. No damage was reported.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindEunice-Local broadcast media reported that a utility line had been blown down by a thunderstorm wind near the town of Eunice.
May 2019HailEunice-Most hailstones were nickel size. Damage was not known.
May 2019Tornado (EFU)Eunice-A large, multiple vortex tornado was photographed by several storm chasers southwest of Tulia in Swisher County. Despite its size, the NWS survey team did not find any evidence |of damage.

Every storm recorded in Swisher 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
Tulia4.5 miles8
Kress7.3 miles7
Lakeview9.0 miles7
Center Plains9.2 miles7
Kaffir11.6 miles7
Claytonville12.2 miles7
Vigo Park19.1 miles7
Happy19.4 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379740. 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.