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Horton, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Pecan Gap census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75428. It stands on Barnett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Klondike quadrangle.

Horton within Delta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

140 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Horton between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,669 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCULVER
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4TH
30 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service313 CR 4741
28 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 3132

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horton in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
January 2025Flash FloodHorton$10,000Emergency management reported that a car was swept off the road by high water on County Road 2065 in Horton.
April 2026HailHorton$7,000Report of 1.75 inch hail from mPING.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindHorton$500A utility pole was blown down by high winds in the extreme southwest corner of Delta County.

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
Needmore4.4 miles9
West Delta4.9 miles9
Friendship5.3 miles8
Klondike5.7 miles9
Gough5.7 miles9
Yowell6.1 miles9
Antioch8.0 miles9
Liberty Grove8.1 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379961. 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.