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Grayburg, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sour Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77659. It stands on Jackson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nome quadrangle.

Grayburg within Hardin 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

71 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Grayburg between 1993 and 2018, burning about 922 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 15 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 burning39
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBATSON BRUSHFIRE
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceYATES BRUSHFIRE
23 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNULL
7 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 197
6 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 105 HAYFIRE
5 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 468
4 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9136

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin 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 Grayburg: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. 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
Sour Lake Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1901

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grayburg in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 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
April 2016Flash FloodGrayburg-A couple of low water crossings near Batson flooded closing the roadways. Water also closed some roadways in Kountze and Silsbee. Cypress Bayou also went out of its banks.
June 2016Funnel CloudGrayburg-Multiple pictures of a funnel cloud were posted to social media in the Nome/Sour Lake area.
March 2024HailGrayburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Sour Lake1.3 miles12
Hathaway3.8 miles12
Pinewood Estates5.6 miles12
Pine Ridge6.5 miles12
Strain7.3 miles13
Rattlesnake Bend11.3 miles13
Loeb12.6 miles14
Rose Hill Acres12.6 miles14

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 Q49352238The 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 1336883. 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.