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Fentress, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Martindale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78622. It stands on Dickerson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Martindale quadrangle. It stands 446 feet above sea level.

Fentress within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

48 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Fentress between 1993 and 2020, burning about 870 acres in total. None 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 burning18
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking3

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY HAY
22 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE /SMALL TRACTOR
20 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCALLIHAN FIRE
20 September 2006Debris and open burning17 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service671 BRUSH FIRE
29 August 2015Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE HWY 80
21 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHNSON OILFIELD LEASE
21 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service671 JOHNSON LEASE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fentress: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hays County Gravel Co OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mercer Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fentress in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
October 2002Thunderstorm WindFentress$80,000A severe thunderstorm downburst struck near Fentress, destroying two mobile home and damaging six others.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindFentress$20,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 80 mph that significantly damaged a barn in Fentress.
March 2021HailFentress-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail near Fentress.
May 2015Flash FloodFentress-Numerous road closures were reported across the county by the Sheriff's Office including State Park Road near Fentress, Acorn Road, and Bugtussle Lane near the town of Joliet.
April 2015Flash FloodFentress-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing Hwy20 at Callihan Rd. A National Weather Employee in the area reported 4.08 inches of rain in two hours.

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
Prairie Lea2.0 miles15
Stairtown3.7 miles15
Joliet5.2 miles15
Mineral Springs (historical)5.3 miles15
Martindale7.1 miles13
Luling8.6 miles15
Maxwell8.7 miles13
Brownsboro9.1 miles15

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 FentressAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5443652The 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 1357289. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.