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Homer, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Huntington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75901. The Survey maps it on the Lufkin quadrangle.

Homer within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

223 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Homer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 953 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 30 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 burning134
Arson/incendiarism30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2

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
9 September 1994Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 655
30 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1084-5
25 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCOTT MOOREHEAD
24 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Homer: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Bennett Clark Bentonite PitBentonitePast Producer
General MillsBentoniteProducer
Southern Clay Products PitBentoniteProducer
Unnamed PitBentonitePast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Angelina County

Storms near this place

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homer in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
March 2012Flash FloodHomer$20,000Old Homer Alto Road southeast of Lufkin, Texas was completely washed out. A car ran across the high water and collapsed into the torrent of water that used to be the road. There were no report of injuries.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindHomer-Trees were snapped and uprooted, and a large horse stable was destroyed on Casey Road in the Fuller Springs community southeast of Lufkin.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindHomer-A tree was downed across Spring Meadow Drive southeast of Lufkin, Texas.
April 2017HailHomer-Hail fell in the Bald Hill community.
June 2015Flash FloodHomer-Heavy rainfall resulted in high water over FM 1475...FM 326 and U.S. Hwy 69 south near Buck Creek southeast of Lufkin, Texas.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindHomer-Trees and powerlines were downed in parts of the county east of Lufkin, Texas.

Every storm recorded in Angelina 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
Rocky Springs3.3 miles14
Huntington3.4 miles14
Bald Hill3.4 miles13
Dunagan4.2 miles14
Herty5.2 miles14
Alco5.6 miles14
Lufkin5.9 miles14
Oak Flat6.6 miles14

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 HomerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5889908The 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 1359485. 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.