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Evelyn, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Chandler-Brownsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75756. It stands on Horn Branch. The Survey maps it on the Brownsboro quadrangle. It stands 361 feet above sea level.

Evelyn within Henderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Evelyn between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,708 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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 burning71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 279
3 September 2011Smoking18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 488
3 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1994Debris and open burning45 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 217
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evelyn in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2012: 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
October 2009Thunderstorm WindEvelyn$500Trees were down near HWY 31 between Brownsboro and Chandler.
August 2012HailEvelyn-Quarter sized hail was reported near Chandler.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindEvelyn-Tree limbs were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
Chandler2.8 miles16
Union Hill3.0 miles13
Brownsboro4.3 miles13
New Hope5.1 miles13
Antioch5.4 miles15
Opelika7.5 miles13
Leagueville8.4 miles15
Sunrise Shores8.6 miles15

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 EvelynAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076474The 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 1379742. 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.