Guys Store, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Centerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75833. The Survey maps it on the Middleton quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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 Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Middleton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
26 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Guys Store between 1993 and 2017, burning about 346 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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 | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 837 |
| 28 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4040 |
| 22 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 117 |
| 21 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 908 |
| 11 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 97 |
| 6 August 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 212 |
| 29 August 2013 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4033 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guys Store in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Lightning | Guys Store | $25,000 | Lightning sparked a house fire about 10 miles east of Centerville. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centerview | 2.4 miles | 10 | |
| Middleton | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Pleasant Ridge | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Spillers Store | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Eunice | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| Pleasant Springs | 7.7 miles | 9 | |
| Centerville | 8.6 miles | 9 | |
| Hopewell | 8.6 miles | 10 |
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 Guys Store | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q122544538 | 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 2034941. 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.




