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Flynn, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Normangee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77855. The Survey maps it on the Spring Seat quadrangle. It stands 466 feet above sea level.

Flynn within Leon 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

25 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Flynn between 2002 and 2019, burning about 242 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural4
Smoking1
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/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 488 FIRE
20 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4025
11 September 2011Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service436
11 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 436 FIRE
26 August 2015Natural52 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4016
26 August 2012Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLARK
31 July 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leon County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flynn in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2015Flash FloodFlynn$10,000County Road 436 was washed out at Highway 39 north of Flynn.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindFlynn$5,000Trees and power lines knocked down.

Every storm recorded in Leon 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
Margie5.4 miles7
Spring Seat6.0 miles7
Hilltop Lakes6.5 miles7
Robbins7.2 miles8
Concord7.4 miles8
Venetia7.4 miles11
Redland8.1 miles7
Leona8.2 miles9

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 FlynnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5463638The 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 1357519. 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.