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Faught, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Blossom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75462. The Survey maps it on the Blossom quadrangle.

Faught within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

210 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Faught between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,560 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning143
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 September 2012Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6219
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2648
29 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND/GRASS FIRE
26 September 2008Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Faught in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindFaught-Trees were reported down near Faught.
April 2016HailFaught-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail in Novice, TX.
February 2013HailFaught-Pea to dime sized hail was reported in Faught.
June 1999HailFaught-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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
Walnut Ridge2.8 miles8
Amherst3.2 miles8
Lone Star3.8 miles10
Medill3.9 miles10
Novice4.0 miles10
Adams4.2 miles8
Sun Valley5.0 miles8
Post Oak5.4 miles8

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 Q122566160The 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 1379757. 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.