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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.

Florey within Andrews County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

60 since 2006

Regional 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 use40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 September 2011Natural1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011545
18 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011515
15 September 2010Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2010289
15 September 2010Natural88 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEANS FIRE
14 September 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011501
13 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEANS SAN ANDRES FIRE
8 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
29 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Andrews County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1999Thunderstorm WindFlorey$3,000no account filed
March 2006HailFlorey-Hail up to the size of pennies was reported from near Florey to Frankel City.
May 2005HailFlorey-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 2002Thunderstorm WindFlorey-A large tree was blown over by 60 MPH severe thunderstorms winds.
May 2022HailFlorey-no account filed
May 2022HailFlorey-no account filed
May 2022HailFlorey-no account filed
May 2020HailFlorey-no account filed
May 2019HailFlorey-no account filed
April 2017HailFlorey-no account filed
May 2001HailFlorey-no account filed
April 1997HailFlorey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Andrews 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
Shafter Lake (historical)5.2 miles5
Andrews9.5 miles5
Waldon Place Windmill10.8 miles5
McKinney Acres10.9 miles5
Frankel City11.2 miles5
Sixteen Corner Windmill18.7 miles5
Old Place Windmills19.5 miles5
Coyote Corner24.9 miles5

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.