BlockFairy, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hico census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76457. The Survey maps it on the Fairy quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1888 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fairy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Iredell quadrangle1:62500
- 1985 USGS Waco quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
35 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Fairy between 2005 and 2020, burning about 478 acres in total. 4 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 burning | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 40 CR 233 |
| 17 September 2011 | Natural | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 119 GRASS |
| 13 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 116 FAIRY GRASS/STRUCTURES |
| 8 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DOUBLE MD |
| 28 August 2011 | Natural | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 106 |
| 25 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 2009 | Natural | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 102 |
| 14 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 96 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairy in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 3 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Hail | Fairy | $100,000 | A public report indicated 3-inch diameter hail about 10 miles south of Hico. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Fairy | $5,000 | A public report indicated 2-inch diameter hail about 10 miles northeast of Hamilton. |
| January 2020 | Hail | Fairy | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Fairy | - | Hamilton County Sheriff's Department reported the closure of County Roads 225 and 226 at Meridian Creek due to water over the roadway. |
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.
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 Fairy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5430936 | The 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 1335649. 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.