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Henrys Chapel, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the New Summerfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75789. It stands on Grissom Creek. The Survey maps it on the Griffin quadrangle. It stands 387 feet above sea level.

Henrys Chapel within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

216 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Henrys Chapel between 1995 and 2020, burning about 982 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 1 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 burning123
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2014Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4608 FIRE
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4620 FIRE
6 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 15 & CR 2159 FIRE
5 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service378 CR 4608 FIRE
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND FIRE
27 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFARM MARKET RD. 13 FIRE
26 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6797 FM 856 FIRE
25 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service803 JOSEPH ST.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Henrys Chapel: 6 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Ball Clay, Clay, Kaolin, Bentonite. 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
Troup PitKaolin, BentoniteProducerSedimentary
Troup PlantClayProducer
TroupeClayProducer
A D Green PitBall ClayPast Producer
Henderson Clay Products Pit EastBall ClayProducer
Henderson Clay Products Pit WestBall ClayProducer
Reliance Clay Products PitBall ClayProducer
Reliance Clay Products PitBall ClayPast Producer
Southern Clay Products PitBall ClayPast Producer
W.A. White No.1 & No.2 PitsBall ClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Henrys Chapel in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
April 2023Thunderstorm WindHenrys Chapel1 hurtA mobile home was rolled over on County Road 4623. A tree was also blown down onto a vehicle on County Road 4619, resulting in an injury to the occupant of the vehicle. Both reports occurred near the Henrys Chapel community.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindHenrys Chapel$50,000Two 100 foot tall pine trees fell on a home in Troup, Texas, destroying two of the home's bedrooms.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindHenrys Chapel$10,000A roof was taken off a barn south of Troup, Texas.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindHenrys Chapel-A tree was downed on FM 856 just south of Troup, Texas.
February 2012HailHenrys Chapel-Hail fell in Troup on the Smith County, Cherokee County line.
June 2010Flash FloodHenrys Chapel-County Road 4807 was closed due to flooding.
December 2009Tornado (EF0)Henrys Chapel-An EF0 tornado touched down one mile southeast of Barrons Lake on CR 4619 just north of FM13. A couple of trees were downed and a few with large branches broken. The tornado tracked northeast where more tree damage was observed on CR 4621 just west of Cherokee/Rusk County line. The tornado lifted after this point ending at 3:10 PM.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Concord2.5 miles15
Griffin5.0 miles15
Blackjack5.0 miles15
Brushy5.6 miles15
Emmaus6.3 miles15
Gould6.7 miles15
Pine Hill8.0 miles11
Mixon9.0 miles15

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 Henrys ChapelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116178750The 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 2034719. 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.