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Ida, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75491. The Survey maps it on the Whitewright quadrangle.

Ida within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

102 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Ida between 2006 and 2020, burning about 790 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-197
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 11 FIRE
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2750 OLD IDA RD
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2552 ROSE HILL RD
26 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1014 FRANKLIN RD
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGF
10 September 2011Debris and open burning35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEAST LINE RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ida in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2016Tornado (EF0)Ida$80,000Amateur radio spotters observed and reported a tornado which moved from southwest of Bells to just northwest of the Bells High School. This storm produced little damage other than tree damage near Bells. The only damage in town was to a recreational vehicle business near the intersection of US 82 and US 69.
May 2015HailIda-A trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail at Ida and Coker Road about 5 miles east of Sherman, TX.
May 2015HailIda-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindIda-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grayson 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
Whiterock1.3 miles7
Luella3.3 miles12
Tom Bean3.8 miles7
White Mound4.2 miles12
Kentucky Town4.6 miles7
Bells4.9 miles7
Canaan4.9 miles7
Smith Oaks5.1 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379982. 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.