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Floyd, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Caddo Mills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75401. The Survey maps it on the Greenville NW quadrangle.

Floyd within Hunt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

146 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Floyd between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,730 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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 burning77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 697 & COUNTY LINE
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011073
8 September 2011Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service19000 CR 656 - 11076624
30 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 September 2009Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR1061 CRAVEN
23 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011119
22 September 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 2712 & CR 2706
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011114

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hunt County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Floyd in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
April 1996Thunderstorm WindFloyd$5,000no account filed
October 2019Thunderstorm WindFloyd$2,500Emergency management reported power lines down at multiple locations in the city of Floyd, TX.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindFloyd-Multiple power poles were down near FM 903 and Highway 380.
May 2009HailFloyd-Nickel size hail fell 1 mile south-southeast of Floyd.
April 2008HailFloyd-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hunt 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
Pleasant Valley2.3 miles9
Wagner3.1 miles7
Clinton3.2 miles6
Merit5.2 miles10
Concord5.3 miles6
Caddo Mills5.8 miles6
Peniel6.3 miles7
Kellogg6.5 miles7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on FloydAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5462372The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378308. 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.