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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.

Guys Store within Leon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

26 since 1993

Regional 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 2011Natural6.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 837
28 September 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4040
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 117
21 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2011Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 908
11 September 2005Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 97
6 August 2009Arson/incendiarism15 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 212
29 August 2013Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4033

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010LightningGuys Store$25,000Lightning sparked a house fire about 10 miles east of Centerville.

Every storm recorded in Leon 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
Centerview2.4 miles10
Middleton3.8 miles11
Pleasant Ridge5.5 miles9
Spillers Store5.8 miles11
Eunice6.9 miles10
Pleasant Springs7.7 miles9
Centerville8.6 miles9
Hopewell8.6 miles10

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 StoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122544538The 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.