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Faulkner, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Powderly census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75473. The Survey maps it on the Woodland quadrangle.

Faulkner within Lamar 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

95 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Faulkner between 1993 and 2016, burning about 1,597 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 September 2013Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6306
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 646
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
30 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFISH CAMP
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
7 August 1999Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Faulkner in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2016FloodFaulkner-Flooding continued across mainly the central portions of Lamar County after 2-4 inches of rain fell in 3 hours or less. Many roads remained flooded.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindFaulkner-Trees were blown down in several locations across Lamar County.

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
Pin Hook3.6 miles9
Slate Shoals3.7 miles10
Novice5.4 miles10
Lone Star5.7 miles10
Medill5.8 miles10
Arthur City8.8 miles14
Walnut Ridge9.1 miles8
Midcity9.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379758. 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.