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Ezzell, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Yoakum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77964. It stands on Foley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ezzell quadrangle.

Ezzell within Lavaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

16 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Ezzell between 2007 and 2011, burning about 112 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
27 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service77 SOUTH FIRE
10 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGERTRUDE BARROW
11 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJIMMY STOCK
7 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lavaca County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ezzell in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
December 1997Thunderstorm WindEzzell$50,000no account filed
April 2023HailEzzell-A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail in Ezzell.
May 2006HailEzzell-no account filed
April 2004HailEzzell-no account filed
December 1997HailEzzell-no account filed
September 1996Tornado (F0)Ezzell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lavaca 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
Koerth5.4 miles8
Hope6.9 miles8
Williamsburg8.0 miles8
Vienna8.8 miles8
Mont8.8 miles9
Sweet Home10.0 miles9
Speaks10.8 miles8
Worthing10.9 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122559969The 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 1379744. 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.