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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.

Fodice within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

82 since 1992

Regional 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 burning37
Natural16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
9 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution32 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 880
6 September 1993Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 390
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution40 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 842
25 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMALLEY GRASS FIRE
24 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 155
23 September 1992Debris and open burning80 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOUSTON 15:20

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2012Tornado (EF3)Fodice$700,000The 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 2020HailFodice-Quarter sized hail was reported.
April 2020HailFodice-Quarter sized hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Holly3.5 miles11
Plainview4.1 miles11
Shady Grove4.4 miles11
Center Grove4.4 miles9
Smith Grove5.0 miles9
Hopewell6.7 miles10
Lovelady8.3 miles9
Arbor8.4 miles10

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 FodiceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q120643779The 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.