BlockFarmer, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Jean-Loving census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76460. The Survey maps it on the Loving quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Loving quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Graham quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
91 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Farmer between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,637 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ORR LEASE |
| 24 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 78 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCCRACKEN |
| 22 September 2011 | Natural | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ORR |
| 14 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 114 W JERMYN |
| 13 September 2011 | Natural | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FARMER FIRE |
| 8 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | COTTONWOOD FIRE |
| 7 August 2008 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2008 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmer in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Hail | Farmer | $5,000 | A trained spotter sent in a picture of approximate baseball sized hail in the Farmer, Texas area in Young County. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Farmer | $2,000 | Strong winds blew down power lines. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Farmer | - | A trained spotter observed a second tornado to the northwest of Loving. This tornado also produced minimal damage over open country. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379753. 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.