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Farrar, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Personville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75838. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Farrar quadrangle.

Farrar within Limestone 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

71 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Farrar between 1996 and 2020, burning about 752 acres in total. 1 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceM/A GRASS FIRE HWY 164
24 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service107 CR 793 DONIE
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9103
8 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTIAL AID WEST MORELY POWER PLANT
30 August 2008Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service188
22 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8223
21 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID DONIE GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farrar in 1 storm report in 2023: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023Flash FloodFarrar-Amateur radio reported flash flooding near the intersection of FM 39 and FM 1512, about 9 miles northwest of Jewett, TX.

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Fair Oaks2.5 miles7
New Hope3.1 miles7
Personville4.9 miles8
Lost Prairie5.6 miles7
Old Union7.9 miles7
Center8.5 miles8
LaSalle9.0 miles8
Oletha9.8 miles7

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 FarrarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65069334The 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 1380852. 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.