Hawthorne, Texas

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.

• 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS New Waverly quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1985 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS New Waverly quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Hawthorne between 1992 and 2017, burning about 938 acres in total. 2 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Elmina
• New Waverly
• Barado

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hawthorne: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Strontium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Walker County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hawthorne in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Walker County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379909. 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.