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Greenwood, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Decatur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76234. It stands on Miller Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greenwood quadrangle. It stands 866 feet above sea level.

Greenwood within Wise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Greenwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 701 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning6
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
20 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD GREENWOOD 8-3-2011
28 August 2010Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
15 August 2008Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service100PR235708122020
5 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use60 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasGL UNIT 63

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wise County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenwood in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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
May 1994Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$500,000A downburst wind between Greenwood and Slidell destroyed two mobile homes and damaged three. Three outbuildings were damaged, and a cattle trailer was overturned.
May 2015Flash FloodGreenwood$80,000The Wise County Sheriff's office reported numerous road closures across the county due to quickly rising water. Several homes were evacuated between Decatur and Chico, and numerous high water rescues were performed by public safety officials. Fast moving water was also reported on Highway 380 to the west of Bridgeport.
April 2016HailGreenwood$50,000A trained spotter reported golfball sized hail 3 miles west of Slidell, TX.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-A storm chaser reported a tree down on FM 730 along with nickel sized hail near Greenwood.
April 2026HailGreenwood-A storm chaser reported nickel sized hail along FM 730 near Greenwood.
April 2019FloodGreenwood-A trained spotter reported 8 inches of water over Highway 455 approximately 15 miles east-northeast of the city of Alvord, TX.
May 2009HailGreenwood-Ping Pong size hail fell west of Greenwood.
May 2021HailGreenwood-no account filed
April 1998HailGreenwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wise 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
Sycamore4.0 miles9
Slidell4.6 miles9
Allison8.3 miles9
Decatur11.7 miles11
Alvord11.8 miles9
Herman15.1 miles11
Bluett15.5 miles9
Chico18.2 miles8

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 GreenwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5604971The 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 1381945. 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.