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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Farrar quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
71 since 1996Regional 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 burning | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | M/A GRASS FIRE HWY 164 |
| 24 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 107 CR 793 DONIE |
| 10 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9103 |
| 8 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTIAL AID WEST MORELY POWER PLANT |
| 30 August 2008 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 August 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 188 |
| 22 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8223 |
| 21 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTUAL AID DONIE GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2023Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Flash Flood | Farrar | - | Amateur radio reported flash flooding near the intersection of FM 39 and FM 1512, about 9 miles northwest of Jewett, TX. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair Oaks | 2.5 miles | 7 | |
| New Hope | 3.1 miles | 7 | |
| Personville | 4.9 miles | 8 | |
| Lost Prairie | 5.6 miles | 7 | |
| Old Union | 7.9 miles | 7 | |
| Center | 8.5 miles | 8 | |
| LaSalle | 9.0 miles | 8 | |
| Oletha | 9.8 miles | 7 |
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 Farrar | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q65069334 | 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 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.



