BlockHoover, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Deport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75416. The Survey maps it on the Deport quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Deport quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
68 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Hoover between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,085 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning | 43 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 448 |
| 19 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 10 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DEPORT MA GRASS FIRE 9/10 |
| 8 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 210 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 367 |
| 29 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS |
| 29 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1051 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoover in 1 storm report in 2016: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoover | $8,000 | Thunderstorm wind damage was reported along County Road 15100 southeast of Blossom. |
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q126327645 | 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 1380860. 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.