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Fairdale, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Hemphill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75948. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fairmount quadrangle.

Fairdale within Sabine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Fairdale between 1992 and 2017, burning about 781 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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 burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOCKLAND CIRCLE
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBEECHWOOD 11
4 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
30 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAKELOW
28 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHNSON & 3315
10 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePARADISE POINT
3 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sabine County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairdale in 1 storm report in 2009: 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
March 2009HailFairdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sabine 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
Hickory Ridge1.6 miles15
Fairmount4.4 miles15
Mason5.8 miles10
Clarktown6.7 miles10
Yellowpine8.9 miles11
Sabinetown12.2 miles14
Hemphill12.4 miles11
Stringtown14.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381856. 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.