Fife, Texas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Melvin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76852. It stands on Big Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fife quadrangle. It stands 1,447 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1894 USGS Brady quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1925 USGS Brady 2-b quadrangle1:48000
- 1928 USGS Waldrip quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1973 USGS Fife quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Brady quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Fife between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,091 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 | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2008 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,097 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WALDROP |
| 13 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 45 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 765/2 |
| 13 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 316 FIRE |
| 11 June 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PEAR VALLEY |
| 28 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fife in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 hail, 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fife | $1,000 | Three power poles were snapped about a mile south of FM 765 and US Highway 283 intersection. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fife | - | Fire department reported 2 electrical power poles broken and roof damage with tin sheets blown off part of a house. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Fife | - | Public reported quarter size hail. |
| April 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fife | - | Damaging thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn and threw it 300 feet to the east. |Four windows on the west side were broken by wind driven hail. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Fife | - | The combination of lots of hail and damaging thunderstorm winds resulted in near whiteout conditions for 5 minutes. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fife | - | A trained spotter reported four to six inch diameter tree limbs down by damaging thunderstorm winds at County Road 300 and FM 765. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Fife | - | This was one of the worst severe episodes of the 2006 spring severe weather season. There were several long lived supercells that produced large hail swaths with hail sizes ranging up to baseball size hail that produced widespread damage across several West Central Texas towns or communities. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Fife | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Fife | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walker Crossing | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Mitchell Crossing | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Knight Crossing | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Waldrip | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Lohn | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Military Crossing | 6.7 miles | 15 | |
| Pear Valley | 8.0 miles | 13 | |
| Doole | 11.4 miles | 14 |
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 Fife | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5447350 | 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 1379764. 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.





