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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.

Fife within McCulloch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

15 since 2005

Regional 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1

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
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2008Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1,097 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALDROP
13 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use45 acresTexas A & M Forest Service765/2
13 July 2009Debris and open burning80 acresTexas A & M Forest Service316 FIRE
11 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePEAR VALLEY
28 April 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCulloch County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2021Thunderstorm WindFife$1,000Three power poles were snapped about a mile south of FM 765 and US Highway 283 intersection.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFife-Fire department reported 2 electrical power poles broken and roof damage with tin sheets blown off part of a house.
June 2023HailFife-Public reported quarter size hail.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindFife-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 2021HailFife-The combination of lots of hail and damaging thunderstorm winds resulted in near whiteout conditions for 5 minutes.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFife-A trained spotter reported four to six inch diameter tree limbs down by damaging thunderstorm winds at County Road 300 and FM 765.
May 2006HailFife-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 2005HailFife-no account filed
August 1998HailFife-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCulloch 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
Walker Crossing3.3 miles15
Mitchell Crossing3.3 miles15
Knight Crossing3.7 miles15
Waldrip4.1 miles14
Lohn4.8 miles13
Military Crossing6.7 miles15
Pear Valley8.0 miles13
Doole11.4 miles14

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 FifeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5447350The 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.