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Fisk, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Talpa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76834. The Survey maps it on the Fisk quadrangle.

Fisk within Coleman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Fisk between 2006 and 2020, burning about 984 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural1
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
4 September 2009Natural25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBEAL
3 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTWEATT
25 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDENNIS STROBEL
18 September 2006Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMELINDA BOULDIN
7 June 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEAST HWY 67/84
28 June 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceR. TISDALE - HAY CUTTER
21 June 2010Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM1026 / CR 358

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coleman County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fisk in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 4 hail, 1 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
May 2013HailFisk-An amateur radio operator reported 1 inch hail about 4 miles north of Voss along County Road 503.
May 2022HailFisk-no account filed
May 2022HailFisk-no account filed
May 2017HailFisk-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindFisk-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coleman 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
Mozelle5.0 miles12
Voss5.2 miles14
Shields6.4 miles12
Valera6.4 miles11
Gouldbusk8.0 miles12
San Angelo Junction9.7 miles13
Santa Anna10.1 miles13
Coleman11.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378295. 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.