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Fitze, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Garrison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75946. It stands on Village Creek. The Survey maps it on the Garrison West quadrangle.

Fitze within Nacogdoches County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Fitze between 1992 and 2020, burning about 897 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 were 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 213
9 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 516
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3291
3 September 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches 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 Fitze: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Garrison PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Acme Brick Company PitClayProducer
Garrison Plant & PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fitze in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 1 tornado, 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
December 2009Tornado (EF1)Fitze$1,000An EF1 tornado touched down on FM 95 just north of CR 289. Several trees were downed and snapped, and a small storage building was destroyed. The tornado tracked north a half mile then dissipated.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindFitze-Trees were downed and a chicken house was destroyed northeast of the Appleby community.

Every storm recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Whispering Pines1.0 miles11
Holly Springs3.3 miles11
Garrison3.5 miles11
Pisgah5.6 miles12
Pleasant Hill5.7 miles11
Appleby6.1 miles12
Cedar Point6.1 miles11
North Redland7.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379771. 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.