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Hathaway, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sour Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77659. It lies near Horsepen Gully. The Survey maps it on the Sour Lake quadrangle.

Hathaway within Hardin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Hathaway between 1993 and 2013, burning about 474 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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 burning30
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBATSON BRUSHFIRE
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceYATES BRUSHFIRE
23 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 August 1993Arson/incendiarism50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 August 1993Arson/incendiarism35 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 August 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 202

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin 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 Hathaway: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. 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
Sour Lake Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1901

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hathaway in 1 storm report in 2011: 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
June 2011HailHathaway-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Strain3.6 miles13
Grayburg3.8 miles11
Sour Lake3.9 miles12
Pine Ridge8.7 miles12
Pinewood Estates8.9 miles12
Rattlesnake Bend8.9 miles13
Batson10.7 miles13
Saratoga11.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378427. 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.