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Izoro, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Adamsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76550. The Survey maps it on the Izoro quadrangle.

Izoro within Lampasas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

59 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Izoro between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,743 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
8 September 2015Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCC
2 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2018Debris and open burning36 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2152 CR 155
8 August 2016Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2550 CR 114
24 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2008Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2016Debris and open burning146 acresTexas A & M Forest Service580 HARMON RD
11 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service454

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lampasas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Izoro in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2022HailIzoro-A social media picture indicated ping pong ball sized hail near Highway 1690 in Izoro, TX.
May 2011Flash FloodIzoro-Several county roads near Adamsville were flooded after creeks exceeded their banks.

Every storm recorded in Lampasas 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
Adamsville5.0 miles13
Rumley8.4 miles13
Faubion Crossing9.0 miles13
Brooks Crossing12.3 miles13
Moline13.9 miles13
Hallmark Crossing14.5 miles13
Shortall15.1 miles13
Kempner15.2 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.

Wikipedia article on IzoroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q117354851The 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 1379992. 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.