BlockHurstown, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Shelbyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75973. The Survey maps it on the Hurstown quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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 Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Augustine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Hurstown quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
- 2003 USGS Hurstown quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
40 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Hurstown between 1992 and 2017, burning about 557 acres in total. None 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 burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 205 |
| 10 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 238 |
| 9 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 13 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7065 |
| 5 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7073 |
| 4 August 2006 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 451 |
| 26 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.3 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | HARMONY |
| 25 August 2010 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 096 |
| 25 August 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 380 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hurstown in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Tornado (EF1) | Hurstown | - | An EF1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 95 mph developed during the early afternoon on March 28th, 2025, associated with a mini-supercell and initially began southwest of Shelbyville near the Hurstown community at the intersection of Highway 87 and County Road 2130. At this location, the tornado removed a few metal roof panels from some chicken houses and snapped and uprooted a few trees. The tornado then moved northward snapping and uprooting more trees along County Road 2130. More snapped hardwood and softwood trees were noted as the tornado crossed County Road 2625, County Road 2635, and Farm-to-Market Road 2694. The tornado finally lifted along Forest Service Road 143 just south of Farm-to-Market Road 417. Despite a relatively weak velocity couplet on the KSHV WSR-88D radar, the damage path was well observed in the vicinity of a TDS in the correlation coefficient data. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Hurstown | - | Hail fell along Hwy 87 in Shelbyville, Texas. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hurstown | - | Numerous trees and powerlines down. |
| February 1995 | Hail | Hurstown | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jordans Store | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| McClelland | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| East Liberty | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Dreka | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| New Harmony | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Shelbyville | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Patroon | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Goober Hill | 6.1 miles | 14 |
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 Q122562440 | 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 1382054. 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.