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Fargo, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fargo-Odell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76384. The Survey maps it on the Northside quadrangle.

Fargo within Wilbarger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

28 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Fargo between 2008 and 2014, burning about 2,382 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceARMSTRONG
28 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAN WHITE
23 September 2014Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11000 HWY 283
10 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 924 E
9 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMETHVIN FIRE
2 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCDONALD FIRE
19 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined350 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFARGO FIRE
18 August 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 110 W #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilbarger County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fargo in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 15 hail, 2 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
May 2003Thunderstorm WindFargo$5,000A house sustained roof damage from the strong winds.
November 2011Tornado (EF0)Fargo-This tornado began over far northern Wilbarger county before quickly moving into Jackson county, OK and continuing into Tillman county. No known damage occurred with this portion of the tornado.
April 2009HailFargo-The hail was reported in White City.
June 2006HailFargo-Hail report gathered by the NSSL Severe Hail Verification Experiment (SHAVE).
June 2006HailFargo-Hail report gathered by the NSSL Severe Hail Verification Experiment (SHAVE).
June 2006HailFargo-Hail report gathered by the NSSL Severe Hail Verification Experiment (SHAVE).
June 2006HailFargo-Hail report gathered by the NSSL Severe Hail Verification Experiment (SHAVE).
June 2006HailFargo-Hail report gathered by the NSSL Severe Hail Verification Experiment (SHAVE).
June 2006HailFargo-Hail report gathered by the NSSL Severe Hail Verification Experiment (SHAVE).
June 2006HailFargo-Hail report gathered by the NSSL Severe Hail Verification Experiment (SHAVE).
June 2006HailFargo-Hail report gathered by the NSSL Severe Hail Verification Experiment (SHAVE).
June 2006HailFargo-Hail report gathered by the NSSL Severe Hail Verification Experiment (SHAVE).
May 2003Tornado (F0)Fargo-This very brief tornado was seen by spotters touching down in open country. The tornado dissipated before crossing the Oklahoma-Texas state line. No damage was reported. The thunderstorm that produced this tornado went on to produce three tornadoes in south central Oklahoma in the early morning hours of May 8, 2003.
May 2019HailFargo-no account filed
April 2016HailFargo-no account filed
April 2009HailFargo-no account filed
August 2002HailFargo-no account filed
May 1997HailFargo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wilbarger 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
Northside1.3 miles9
Doans3.6 miles9
White City3.7 miles9
Hinds7.4 miles9
Tolbert8.2 miles10
Odell8.3 miles9
Vernon9.7 miles9
Farmers Valley12.9 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1357231. 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.