Hoard, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mineola census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75773. The Survey maps it on the Mineola quadrangle.

Hoard within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1960 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

168 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Hoard between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,211 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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 burning	96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	41
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 6230
6 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE
5 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE
30 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoard in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 4 flood, 2 flash flood, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoard	$70,000	The roof was blown off a warehouse along Hwy. 80 east of Mineola, Texas. Elsewhere, trees were downed across the entire county. A 70 foot communications tower was downed in Quitman. The winds tore the roof off an old Exxon Station that was located at the intersection of Hwy. 154 and 37. A huge oak tree at the Mineola Civic Center crushed a portion of a wooden bridge and fell on some of the playground equipment.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoard	$25,000	A roof was blown off a home on County Road 1804 near the community of Hoard, Texas. There were no injuries reported. The damage was a result of a small downburst.
March 2020	Flood	Hoard	-	Moderate flooding developed along the Sabine River south of Mineola as a result of heavy rains that fell across the Sabine basin throughout much of March. Widespread rainfall amounts of five to in excess of eight inches fell across the basin during the first three weeks of March, atop already saturated grounds from above normal rainfall that fell during February below Lake Tawakoni. As a result, the Sabine River south of Mineola rose above the 18 ft moderate flood stage at 245 am on March 21st, before cresting at 18.5 ft at 5 pm on the 22nd. The Sabine River fell back below the moderate flood stage at 9 pm on March 24th. Farther downstream on the Sabine River just south of Hawkins, only minor flooding was observed, with the river cresting at 30.4 ft at 1030 am on March 25th. This flooding inundated some barns and secondary roads including FM 1804 in Southern Wood and Northern Smith Counties through much of March before receding.
February 2018	Flood	Hoard	-	Widespread heavy rainfall of eight to ten inches across the Sabine River basin of Northeast Texas during the final week of February resulted in rapid rises on the Sabine River south of Mineola, with the river cresting at 18.69 feet during the evening hours on February 27th. This resulted in moderate backwater flooding along the river, inundating some barns and secondary roads including FM 1804 in Southern Wood and Northern Smith Counties.
February 2018	Flood	Hoard	-	High water flowing over FM 1804 along the Wood/Smith County line due to backwater flooding on the Sabine River from periods of moderate to heavy rainfall across the Sabine River Basin. Road is closed.
March 2018	Flood	Hoard	-	Moderate flooding continued along the Sabine River south of Mineola as a result of heavy rains that fell across the Sabine basin during the final week of February, with additional rains on March 1st contributing to a secondary crest of 18.83 feet during the late evening hours of March 2nd. Thus, moderate backwater flooding continued along the river, inundating some barns and secondary roads including FM 1804 in Southern Wood and Northern Smith Counties until the river receded below moderate flood stage by the second week of March.
April 2016	Flash Flood	Hoard	-	Farm to Market Road 2422 from Highway 80 to Farm to Market Road 1804 east of Mineola was closed due to a washout.
October 2009	Flash Flood	Hoard	-	Several Wood County roads were under water east of Mineola.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
New Hope	1.9 miles	12
Crow	4.5 miles	12
Fada	5.4 miles	12
Hainesville	5.4 miles	12
Mineola	5.5 miles	12
Fouke	6.1 miles	12
West Mineola	7.3 miles	15
Angler	7.8 miles	12

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 Hoard	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q119854013	The 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 1378458. 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.