Florey, Texas
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Andrews North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79714. The Survey maps it on the Florey quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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 Hobbs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Florey quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Andrews quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
60 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Florey between 2006 and 2016, burning about 1,894 acres in total. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 40 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2011 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011545 |
| 18 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011515 |
| 15 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2010289 |
| 15 September 2010 | Natural | 88 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MEANS FIRE |
| 14 September 2011 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011501 |
| 13 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 18 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MEANS SAN ANDRES FIRE |
| 8 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 29 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Florey in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 10 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florey | $3,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Florey | - | Hail up to the size of pennies was reported from near Florey to Frankel City. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Florey | - | A local television station relayed a report of quarter size hail in Florey. Additional reports from Florey indicated that the hail killed numerous birds. The storm propagated south and produced quarter size hail that covered the ground west of Andrews along State Highway 176 by 23:20 CST. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florey | - | A large tree was blown over by 60 MPH severe thunderstorms winds. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Florey | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Florey | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Florey | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Florey | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Florey | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Florey | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Florey | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Florey | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shafter Lake (historical) | 5.2 miles | 5 | |
| Andrews | 9.5 miles | 5 | |
| Waldon Place Windmill | 10.8 miles | 5 | |
| McKinney Acres | 10.9 miles | 5 | |
| Frankel City | 11.2 miles | 5 | |
| Sixteen Corner Windmill | 18.7 miles | 5 | |
| Old Place Windmills | 19.5 miles | 5 | |
| Coyote Corner | 24.9 miles | 5 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378304. 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.



