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Ireland, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Purmela-Levita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76538. The Survey maps it on the Jonesboro quadrangle.

Ireland within Coryell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

88 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Ireland between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,022 acres in total. 2 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2

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/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEVITA FIRE
6 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use273 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresTexas A & M Forest Service932
24 September 2006Smoking15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIRELAND FIRE
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service932 GRASS FIRE
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,023 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIRELAND FIRE
13 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEVERGREEN CEMETERY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ireland in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 2 hail, 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 2009Flash FloodIreland$3,000Honey Creek and Plum Creek rose out of their banks.
March 2016HailIreland-A trained spotter reported quarter to half-dollar sized hail in Ireland, TX.
March 1995HailIreland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coryell 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
Levita5.4 miles11
Purmela5.7 miles17
Jonesboro5.7 miles11
Ater6.3 miles12
South Purmela6.7 miles17
Arnett9.3 miles17
Pancake9.4 miles12
Ames10.3 miles12

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 IrelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q107404578The 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 1360025. 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.