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India, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Ferris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75125. The Survey maps it on the India quadrangle. It stands 443 feet above sea level.

India within Ellis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

57 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of India between 2006 and 2019, burning about 6,284 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
24 September 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROLLING HILLS
12 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARS COMMAND
11 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2600 FM 660
10 September 2014Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMALLOY BRIDGE
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 August 2016Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOKES COMMAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of India: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ferris Clay Pit & PlantClayProducer
Harkrider PitSand and Gravel, Construction, SilicaProducer
A B B Sand and Gravel OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Seagoville Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
South Dallas Plant No. 534Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Texas Ind Inc Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names India in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2015: 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
May 2015Flash FloodIndia-Flash Flooding was occurring in the county.
September 2010Tornado (EF0)India-A tornadic supercell produced several tornado touchdowns from east of Ferris to Seagoville. The first touchdown occurred a few miles east of Ferris in open country and tracked to the northeast into Dallas County.

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Ferris2.7 miles18
Walnut Springs3.2 miles19
Trumbull3.6 miles11
Bristol5.0 miles11
Palmer7.0 miles11
Rockett8.7 miles10
Crisp9.0 miles11
Sand Lake9.3 miles9

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 IndiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11005863The 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 1378480. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.