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Fairmount, 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 South Prong Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fairmount quadrangle.

Fairmount 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Fairmount between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,359 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 19 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 burning69
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural11
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2

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 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasGUIDRY
4 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasJAMES
30 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAKELOW
29 September 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 203
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sabine County

Storms near this place

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairmount in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2009Tornado (EF0)Fairmount$1,000Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted along Lakeshore Drive east of the town of Fairmont, Texas. Several powerlines were also downed on either side of Toledo Beach Drive. Maximum winds are estimated at 65-70 mph.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindFairmount-Trees downed in the Fairmount community.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindFairmount-A tree was blown down in the Six Mile community.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindFairmount-A tree was blown onto a power line in Toledo Village.
August 2017Flash FloodFairmount-High water across Willow Oak Road near Toledo Bend Lake.
August 2017Flash FloodFairmount-Highway 87 near FM 3315 in the Fairmount community was closed due to high water.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindFairmount-Trees and powerlines were downed near the Six Mile area south of Hemphill, Texas.
June 2008HailFairmount-Hail reported along Hwy. 87.
August 2008HailFairmount-Quarter sized hail in the community of Fairmount, Texas.

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
Clarktown2.4 miles10
Mason3.9 miles10
Fairdale4.4 miles15
Hickory Ridge5.0 miles15
Yellowpine6.5 miles11
Stringtown10.2 miles10
Blackjack10.8 miles10
Hemphill11.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381857. 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.