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Jermyn, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bryson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76459. It lies near Spie Knob. The Survey maps it on the Markley quadrangle. 75 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 1,168 feet above sea level.

Jermyn within Jack County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

102 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Jermyn between 2005 and 2019, burning about 9,388 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning20
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
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 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURDICK
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceYODER FIRE
5 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined115 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOLF FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jack County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jermyn in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 14 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024HailJermyn$100,000no account filed
May 2020HailJermyn$50,000Emergency management reported baseball sized hail 8 miles west-northwest of the city of Jacksboro, TX.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindJermyn$50,000Wind damage to trees and power lines was reported by the Channel 3 TV Station in Wichita Falls.
May 2024HailJermyn$20,000Hail was estimated at 2 to 2.25 inches in Jermyn.
April 2002HailJermyn$5,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindJermyn$2,000Thunderstorm winds blew down small trees and several tree limbs in Jermyn.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindJermyn$1,000Roof damage to a barn in the Antelope community.
April 2017HailJermyn-A social media report indicated half-dollar sized hail in the city of Jermyn.
April 2014HailJermyn-Penny sized hail was reported half an inch deep in Jermyn.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindJermyn-Spotter estimated 60 MPH winds near Jermyn.
April 2004HailJermyn-Occurred 3 miles south of Antelope.
April 2002HailJermyn-Windows were broken by golfball size hail.
August 1994HailJermyn-Wind damage to trees and power lines was reported by the Channel 3 TV Station in Wichita Falls.
May 2023HailJermyn-no account filed
June 2014HailJermyn-no account filed
June 2012HailJermyn-no account filed
August 2005HailJermyn-no account filed
June 2003HailJermyn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jack 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
Bryson7.1 miles8
Bob Town7.3 miles8
Lynn Creek7.6 miles8
Senate8.0 miles8
Oakland11.9 miles9
Antelope12.3 miles9
Jacksboro12.6 miles9
Bartons Chapel16.0 miles8

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 JermynAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6182408The 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 1360225. 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.