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Ivan, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Breckenridge North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76424. It stands on Norton Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ivan South quadrangle.

Ivan within Stephens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

63 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Ivan between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,022 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning4

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
6 September 2020Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOMBRINK FIRE
5 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHANLON CR 171
5 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 171 FIRE
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRANDY BLACK
23 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLACK CADDO LEASE
15 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service171 FIRE
8 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLACK CADDO FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stephens County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ivan in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 9 hail, 3 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
May 2013HailIvan$20,000Broadcast media reported baseball sized hail near Ivan.
April 2006HailIvan$15,000Baseball-size hail was reported by a NWS employee driving through the area. Report relayed by Midland NWS.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindIvan$5,000Emergency management reported downed utility poles just southwest of the city of Ivan, TX.
June 2012HailIvan$2,000Baseball sized hail was reported about 3 miles south of Eliasville.
June 2013HailIvan$1,000Golf ball sized hail was reported on Highway 67 just south of Ivan.
May 2015Flash FloodIvan-The Stephens County Sheriff's Department reported lots of flooding around Possum Kingdom Lake.
May 2015FloodIvan-Significant flooding of roads continued for several hours after the heavy rain had ended.
June 2011Tornado (EF0)Ivan-A brief tornado touched down approximately 2 miles east of Eliasville in extreme northern Stephens County.
May 2000HailIvan-Occurred near Eliasville.
May 2015HailIvan-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindIvan-no account filed
March 1997HailIvan-no account filed
March 1997HailIvan-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindIvan-no account filed
April 1996HailIvan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stephens 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
Crystal Falls9.0 miles12
Caddo11.3 miles13
Breckenridge12.1 miles14
South Hanlon12.7 miles14
Necessity15.8 miles12
Frankell17.3 miles13
Wayland19.0 miles13
La Casa19.0 miles13

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 Q128379971The 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 1378486. 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.