BlockFinney, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Guthrie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79248. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo Creek quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1968 USGS Buffalo Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Dickens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Finney between 2005 and 2019, burning about 79 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 August 2019 | Natural | 70 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JACOBSON 2 |
| 11 July 2005 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 March 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 15 MILES S. HWY 83 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Finney in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 4 hail, 2 tornado. 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 2015 | Hail | Finney | $30,000 | A COOP observer reported golf ball to baseball size hail covering the ground. Several vehicles were damaged and lost windows or windshields. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Finney | - | A swath of severe hail ranging from the size of quarters to hen eggs fell along a stretch of US Highway 83 north of Guthrie. Damage was not known. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Finney | - | The Paducah Fire Department reported quarter size hail along US Highway 83 in King County. No damage was reported. |
| April 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Finney | - | Newspaper accounts described a local rancher's eyewitness account of a tornado that occurred one mile north of Finney shortly before 19:30 CST. The witness stated that he observed a tornado travel a short distance across the north side of his property for about one minute before it dissipated. An analysis of Doppler radar imagery reveals a brief hook echo and velocity couplet near Finney as a complex of severe storms impacted the area. Event time is estimated via radar imagery. |
| April 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Finney | - | The King County Sheriff's Office reported a tornado over open country. An NWS storm survey was not conducted as the tornado caused no damage. |
| June 1996 | Hail | Finney | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grow | 4.7 miles | 7 | |
| Dumont | 7.5 miles | 8 | |
| Gage Corner Windmill | 9.9 miles | 8 | |
| Guthrie | 11.5 miles | 8 | |
| Corner Windmill | 13.2 miles | 8 |
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 Finney | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5450719 | 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 1379767. 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.