BlockFlower Grove, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Tarzan-Lenorah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79713. The Survey maps it on the Merrick quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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 Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Merrick quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Flower Grove between 2005 and 2016, burning about 4,076 acres in total. None 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 | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 April 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 400 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BENNIE FOSTER FARM |
| 21 April 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3,500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HOLLCUM FIRE |
| 7 March 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | V SMITH LAKE |
| 29 February 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FLOWER GROVE BAR DITCH |
| 12 February 2011 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR4101/4700 |
| 30 December 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
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 Flower Grove in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 9 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2000 | Hail | Flower Grove | $3,000 | Vehicles damaged. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flower Grove | - | A thunderstorm moved over Martin County and produced a 50 to 60 mph wind gust in northeast Martin County. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Flower Grove | - | The Flower Grove Co-op Gin reported penny size hail covering Farm to Market 2002 in front of the gin. |
| May 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Flower Grove | - | The supercell thunderstorm produced another weaker tornado just before 8:30pm CDT. This tornado is believed to have traveled over open country before dissipating east-southeast of the community of Flower Grove. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Flower Grove | - | The Dawson County supercell moved south across eastern Martin County. Reports of nickel to golfball size hail were received along a swath from near the rural community of Brown to Lenorah. Extensive damage occurred to cotton crops, especially in the northeastern parts of the county. The path of the damaging hail ended several miles north of Stanton, where pea size hail was reported shortly before 21:00 CST. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Flower Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Flower Grove | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Flower Grove | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Flower Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Flower Grove | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flower Grove | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Flower Grove | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378306. 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.