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Hardy, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Montague-Forestburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76239. It lies near McCracken Mound. The Survey maps it on the Forestburg quadrangle.

Hardy within Montague County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

66 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Hardy between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,126 acres in total. 7 started naturally. None was 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 burning26
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCECIL JONES PIT FIRE
19 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE BY TIRE
19 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013-156
19 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBINGHAM RD
16 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSELF RANCH
9 August 2011Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAMMER LIGHTNING
9 August 2011Natural7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROUND PRARIE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montague County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hardy in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 flash 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
March 2020Flash FloodHardy-Flood debris was reported across FM 677 north of FM 1630 due to multiple rounds of heavy rain.
May 1997HailHardy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montague 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
Gladys2.8 miles10
Forestburg3.6 miles10
Dye5.7 miles10
Mallard7.0 miles10
Saint Jo8.2 miles10
New Harp9.0 miles9
Dry Valley9.2 miles10
Salona12.2 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 HardyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122834625The 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 1379888. 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.