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Friendship, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lindale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75771. The Survey maps it on the Lindale quadrangle.

Friendship within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Friendship between 1992 and 2020, burning about 594 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
8 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNONE
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 446
6 August 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNONE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Friendship in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFriendship-Trees downed at the intersection of Highway 271 and County Road 3110.
May 2023HailFriendship-A picture was posted to social media of golfball size hail that fell in the Friendship community southwest of Gladewater.
February 2020Flash FloodFriendship-A vehicle was submerged in high water due to flooding from Carter Creek at the intersection of Highway 271 and County Road 3110.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindFriendship-Trees were blown down on Barber Road.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindFriendship-A few trees and large limbs were downed along Hwy. 271 north of Interstate 20.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindFriendship-Trees and power lines down along Hwy 271.
January 1998HailFriendship-no account filed
April 1998HailFriendship-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Smith 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
Garden Valley4.2 miles16
Lindale5.1 miles13
Hideaway5.3 miles15
Hide-A-Way Lake5.3 miles15
Jamestown5.6 miles16
Carroll6.3 miles13
Thedford7.1 miles15
Wood Springs7.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378332. 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.