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Huckabay, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Stephenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76401. The Survey maps it on the Huckabay quadrangle. 268 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,444 feet above sea level.

Huckabay within Erath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

148 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Huckabay between 2005 and 2020, burning about 7,378 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 burning63
Equipment and vehicle use39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
6 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceORTEGA TREE CR 130
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE FM 3025
1 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 428
6 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 219 LOWE
31 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 419
31 August 2006Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 130

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erath County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huckabay in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 13 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindHuckabay$20,000Thunderstorm winds blew cars off the road on Highway 108 ten miles north of Stephenville.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHuckabay$10,000Trees blown down across Highway 108. Numerous other trees and power poles were blown down or snapped in half. Damage to awnings and miscellaneous outdoor items was reported.
April 2006HailHuckabay$5,000Quarter to golf ball-size hail reported in Huckabay and Morgan Mill.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Huckabay-Amateur radio operators observed a tornado to the northeast of Huckabay. The tornado was brief, and only produced damage to ranch land in north central Erath County.
May 2010HailHuckabay-Nickel sized hail was reported 2 miles west of Huckaby.
May 2009HailHuckabay-Nickel size hail fell 4 miles southeast of Huckabay.
November 2008Flash FloodHuckabay-Flooding was reported along county roads.
July 2008HailHuckabay-A penny-size hail report was relayed by the media.
March 2007Tornado (EF0)Huckabay-Brief tornado near Thurber. No damage reported.
June 2004HailHuckabay-Reported by the Cooperative Observer.
June 1999Flash FloodHuckabay-Highway 108 was flooded north of Huckabay. The water was a result of heavy thunderstorm rains.
April 2008HailHuckabay-no account filed
June 2007HailHuckabay-no account filed
April 2004HailHuckabay-no account filed
June 2004HailHuckabay-no account filed
March 2000HailHuckabay-no account filed
May 1999HailHuckabay-no account filed
September 1996HailHuckabay-no account filed
May 1995HailHuckabay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erath 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
Hannibal2.8 miles13
Morgan Mill7.6 miles12
Sapoak8.0 miles12
Lingleville8.1 miles13
Stephenville10.0 miles15
Knob Hill10.1 miles14
Bunyan12.6 miles12
Welcome Valley12.7 miles15

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 HuckabayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5928064The 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 1338209. 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.