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Farrsville, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Burkeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75977. It stands on Jordan Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jamestown quadrangle.

Farrsville within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Farrsville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,320 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 46 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
Arson/incendiarism46
Debris and open burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 1995Arson/incendiarism40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1995Arson/incendiarism100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1995Arson/incendiarism600 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1995Arson/incendiarism96 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1995Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farrsville in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2017Tornado (EF1)Farrsville$50,000Numerous large trees were uprooted or snapped along Highway 63 west|of Farrsville, including County Roads 1012, 1064, and 1065. At least two houses had|trees land on them. The tornado ended along US Highway 87 south of Mayflower, where|a mobile home lost its roof and a couple of large trees were snapped near a church. The peak winds in the tornado was estimated at 110 MPH. The path was 12.2 miles long and 800 yards wide.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindFarrsville$2,000Trees were blown down around Farrsville.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindFarrsville$2,000A lumber company near Farrsville reported a tree down across road.
April 2020HailFarrsville-Large hail was reported near Farrsville.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindFarrsville-Several trees were blown down.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindFarrsville-Several trees blown down.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Mattox2.1 miles9
Indian Hills4.3 miles9
Jamestown4.3 miles9
Wiergate5.4 miles9
Shankleville5.4 miles9
Liberty6.1 miles9
Weeks Settlement7.2 miles9
Burkeville7.5 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122564530The 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 1379754. 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.