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Highland Addition, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Springtown-Reno census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76082. The Survey maps it on the Springtown quadrangle.

Highland Addition within Parker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

180 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Highland Addition between 2005 and 2015, burning about 1,637 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined113
Debris and open burning40
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service960 JENNINGS LN
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
28 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1100 OLD RENO RD
27 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service289 ENGLISH COURT
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7633 VEAL STATION RD
2 September 2009Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service261 EDWARDS FARRIS ROAD
18 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1766 JE WOODY RD
14 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1811 HIGHLAND CIR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Parker County

Storms near this place

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland Addition in 5 storm reports between 2015 and 2026: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2015Thunderstorm WindHighland Addition$10,000Parker County Fire and Rescue reported that a 2-car garage was destroyed near HWY 51 and Carter Road, approximately 4 miles south of Springtown, TX.
April 2026HailHighland Addition$7,000Report of 1.75 inch hail southwest of Sanctuary.
February 2022HailHighland Addition$5,000Hail up to 1.5 fell for nearly 15 minutes on Seessums Road in Springtown.
May 2021HailHighland Addition-Quarter sized hail was reported southeast of Springtown near Highway 199 and Adalida Lane.
October 2019HailHighland Addition-A public report indicated quarter sized hail approximately 4 miles southwest of the city of Sanctuary, TX.

Every storm recorded in Parker 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
La Junta2.0 miles20
Sabathany2.4 miles20
Reno2.9 miles20
Sanctuary3.1 miles20
Springtown3.5 miles18
Carter6.2 miles18
Goshen6.4 miles18
Wright8.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034568. 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.