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Farmington, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Southwest Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75058. The Survey maps it on the Gunter quadrangle.

Farmington within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

52 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Farmington between 2005 and 2017, burning about 333 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-201
30 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2011Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKNOB HILL FIRE
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHYW 289
30 August 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKERFOOT
19 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAJORS RD 1
9 July 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 75 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmington in 3 storm reports between 2023 and 2024: 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023HailFarmington$2,000Emergency management reported golf ball sized hail between Howe and Van Alstyne.
March 2023HailFarmington-Reported via mPing.
May 2024HailFarmington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grayson 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
Elmont3.2 miles7
Howe3.3 miles12
Dorchester4.8 miles11
Van Alstyne4.9 miles7
Elm View5.1 miles7
Sperry5.4 miles11
Gunter5.6 miles7
Mormon Grove (historical)7.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380851. 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.