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Grice, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Bettie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75644. The Survey maps it on the Thomas quadrangle.

Grice within Upshur 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

392 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 392 fires within 5 miles of Grice between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,523 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 17 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 burning223
Missing data/not specified/undetermined88
Equipment and vehicle use22
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural10
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes3
Fireworks1

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 2015Natural6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15-0282
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFOX ROAD GRASS FIRE
8 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSQUIRREL RD BRUSH FIRE
6 September 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUPSHUR 13:27
5 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1002 COMMAND
4 September 2016Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 556 TREE FIRE
4 September 1998Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 647

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upshur 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 Grice: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Unnamed PitClayProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Upshur County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grice in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 2016HailGrice-A photo was posted to the KLTV Facebook page of golfball size hail that fell in the Grice community.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindGrice-A tree was downed at FM 852 and Ocelot Road.

Every storm recorded in Upshur 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
Soules Chapel2.9 miles13
Rhonesboro3.7 miles14
Rosewood4.3 miles13
Simpsonville4.6 miles13
Thomas4.7 miles13
Enon5.3 miles13
Kelsey6.3 miles13
Piney Grove6.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378386. 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.