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Jamestown, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Newton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75966. It lies near Lewis Gully. The Survey maps it on the Jamestown quadrangle.

Jamestown within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

181 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Jamestown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,104 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 60 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 burning80
Arson/incendiarism60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1995Arson/incendiarism40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1995Arson/incendiarism100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1995Arson/incendiarism600 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 686
5 September 1995Arson/incendiarism96 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jamestown in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 2 tornado, 2 flash flood, 1 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 2020Tornado (EF2)Jamestown$75,000The tornado removed the roof from a mobile home, otherwise trees along its path were damaged or snapped. The tornado debarked trees at times.
November 2004Tornado (F1)Jamestown$25,000no account filed
March 2012FloodJamestown$1,000Heavy rain that fell across portions of Southwest Louisiana and Southeast Texas during the 20th and 21st slowly drained from the region over several days. A seven foot sink hole opened in the Bon Weir area on Highway 4081, and Highway 87 and FM 363 were also closed for a time due to high water. Schools were closed in the county during the 21st due to high water blocking bus routes.
April 2024Flash FloodJamestown-Highways 87 and 190 and FM 1414 closed in Newton due to high water.
October 2015Flash FloodJamestown-Heavy rain moved into Newton County during the morning of the 31st with flooding first reported at 9:17 AM with water covering Farm to Market 1004 near Call. Numerous other roads were flooded during the morning and early afternoon with some becoming impassable.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Farrsville4.3 miles9
Liberty5.5 miles9
Mattox6.0 miles9
Newton6.3 miles9
Quicksand6.6 miles9
Trotti6.9 miles9
Shankleville7.1 miles9
Wiergate8.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1360148. 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.