BlockFulbright, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Bogata census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75436. The Survey maps it on the Deport quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Deport quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
146 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Fulbright between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,992 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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 | 56 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| 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 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 567 |
| 8 September 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 37N BRUSH FIRE 9/8 |
| 29 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 271N FIRE 9/28 |
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 32 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fulbright in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2015 | Tornado (EF1) | Fulbright | $10,000 | A NWS Storm Survey team determined that a brief tornado touchdown occurred northwest of Bogata, Texas. This tornado briefly developed near the intersection of FM 411 and County Road 1245. The trunks of some trees were snapped and an outbuilding was completely destroyed before the tornado lifted. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Fulbright | - | Half dollar size hail reported a few miles northwest of the Fulbright community. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulbright | - | A 60 mph wind gust was estimated south of Detroit. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Fulbright | - | Half dollar sized hail fell south of Detroit or about 3 miles north northeast of Deport just inside the western side of Red River County. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Fulbright | - | no account filed |
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q122560416 | 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 1373784. 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.