Fodice, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Lovelady census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75851. The Survey maps it on the Fodice quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Fodice quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2004 USGS Fodice quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
82 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Fodice between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,572 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 6 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 burning | 37 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 32 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 880 |
| 6 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 390 |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 40 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 842 |
| 25 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SMALLEY GRASS FIRE |
| 24 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 155 |
| 23 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HOUSTON 15:20 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fodice in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 2 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2012 | Tornado (EF3) | Fodice | $700,000 | The worst of the tornado damage, rated EF3, was along Highway 287, or one mile north of the town of Pennington. An agricultural feed store and restaurant were completely destroyed with the debris scattered off toward the east in a field. There was severe damage to several homes and trailers along the path of the tornado that was indicative of either EF1 or EF2 scale damage. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Fodice | - | Quarter sized hail was reported. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Fodice | - | Quarter sized hail was reported. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holly | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Plainview | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Shady Grove | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Center Grove | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Smith Grove | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Hopewell | 6.7 miles | 10 | |
| Lovelady | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| Arbor | 8.4 miles | 10 |
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 Fodice | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q120643779 | The 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 1381880. 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.





