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Inadale, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hermleigh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79545. The Survey maps it on the Inadale quadrangle.

Inadale within Scurry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

30 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Inadale between 2005 and 2020, burning about 15,275 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
4 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 111 NORTH
28 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 84 & CR 4194
2 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 84
12 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 84 MITCHELL COUNTY
12 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 84 MITCHELL COUNTY
12 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceS HWY 84 INADALE
30 June 2005Railroad operations and maintenance50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scurry County

Storms near this place

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inadale in 7 storm reports between 2015 and 2021: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindInadale-A thunderstorm moved across Scurry County and produced an estimated 80 mph wind gust in Inadale, TX.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindInadale-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated up to 60 mph.
April 2016Flash FloodInadale-Heavy rain fell across Scurry County and produced flash flooding two miles northwest of Inadale. Since no damage was reported, the cost of damage is assumed to be zero.
April 2015Tornado (EF0)Inadale-A landspout was reported by the public via social media. The landspout lasted a few short minutes in farmland in southeast Scurry County.
May 2021HailInadale-no account filed
April 2021HailInadale-no account filed
May 2017HailInadale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scurry 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
China Grove7.2 miles10
Hermleigh7.6 miles9
Dunn10.9 miles9
Midway13.2 miles8
Camp Springs15.1 miles10
Ira17.1 miles9
Snyder17.4 miles10
Union21.1 miles10

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 Q122539999The 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 1338380. 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.