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Grand Bluff, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Beckville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75631. It stands on Dillard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grand Bluff quadrangle.

Grand Bluff within Panola 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

274 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 274 fires within 5 miles of Grand Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,178 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 13 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 burning162
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Equipment and vehicle use22
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Fireworks2

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
7 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2009-0086
6 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6290
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 482
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use11 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6160
28 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2428 U.S. HWY 59 NORTH
26 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service154 C.R. 3051

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Panola County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Bluff in 2 storm reports in 1994: 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994Thunderstorm WindGrand Bluff$5,000A poultry barn was damaged by thunderstorm winds.
April 1994HailGrand Bluff-Several trees were blown down onto Highway 9.

Every storm recorded in Panola 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
Walnut Grove2.8 miles13
Sterrett Hill2.9 miles13
Horton4.0 miles13
Harris Chapel5.3 miles13
Riderville5.8 miles14
Beckville6.3 miles14
River Hill7.1 miles17
Hudson Mast7.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1358252. 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.