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Fairlie, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Commerce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75428. The Survey maps it on the Commerce North quadrangle.

Fairlie within Hunt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

154 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Fairlie between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,405 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined65
Debris and open burning49
Equipment and vehicle use30
Natural4
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCREWS HELP FIRE
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceROOSTER FIRE/CR 4510
5 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4505
4 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 50
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHORSE PEN
3 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4319 CR 4509

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hunt County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairlie in 1 storm report in 2015: 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
March 2015Flash FloodFairlie-Texas Department of Highways reported that low water crossings just southwest of Fairlie were flooded.

Every storm recorded in Hunt 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
Jardin2.4 miles8
Durham2.8 miles8
Aberfoyle3.6 miles6
South Sulphur4.3 miles6
Scatter Branch5.1 miles8
Commerce5.5 miles8
Wolfe City7.1 miles6
Jacobia8.2 miles8

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 FairlieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5430537The 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 1357168. 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.