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Hainesville, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Quitman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75773. The Survey maps it on the Hainesville quadrangle. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Hainesville within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

126 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Hainesville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,464 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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 2012Equipment and vehicle use12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6230
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNONE
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
23 September 2015Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3264 FIRE
2 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNONE
27 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hainesville in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 1 tornado, 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
May 2023HailHainesville-Golfball size hail fell near the Hainesville community.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Hainesville-The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey in Wood County and concluded that the damage was the result of an EF0 tornado. The tornado first touched down to the west southwest of the community of Hainesville, Tx. Trees were snapped with a path width of 50 to 75 yards wide. The storm continued on an east northeast track crossing FM. 49 before lifting just to the west of Hainesville. Damage consisted mostly of trees snapped and/or uprooted along the track. Estimated wind speeds were 75-80 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHainesville-Trees were blown down in Hainesville.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Pine Mills4.3 miles12
New Hope5.1 miles12
Hoard5.4 miles12
Quitman7.1 miles13
Little Hope7.1 miles12
Oak Grove7.2 miles12
Mineola7.6 miles12
Crow7.6 miles12

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 HainesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710478The 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 1378403. 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.