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Folsom, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Amarillo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79108. The Survey maps it on the Pullman quadrangle. It stands 3,583 feet above sea level.

Folsom within Potter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

162 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Folsom between 2006 and 2020, burning about 4,014 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined93
Equipment and vehicle use40
Debris and open burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePOTTER 6 DITCH FIRE
18 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-13505
18 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-13519
3 August 2018Natural150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALABATES
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-12214
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCGERE
9 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-9581
8 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013-10724

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Potter County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Folsom: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Amarillo Copper RefineryCopper, Sulfur, Sulfuric AcidPlant

Every working recorded in Potter County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Folsom in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 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
October 2007HailFolsom-Hail reported at Loop 335 and the Fritch Highway (State Highway 136) about seven miles northeast of Amarillo.

Every storm recorded in Potter 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
Mayer2.5 miles8
Pullman2.7 miles8
Saint Francis4.7 miles8
Dumas Junction5.4 miles8
Amarillo6.7 miles8
Pleasant Valley6.8 miles11
Juilliard7.9 miles11
Gluck10.6 miles11

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 FolsomAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076479The 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 1379783. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.