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Johnsville, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Duffau-Clairette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76457. The Survey maps it on the Johnsville quadrangle.

Johnsville within Erath 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

167 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Johnsville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,290 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use31
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service111 GRASS 220
5 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2009088
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM2481/CR539
14 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE HWY67 N

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erath County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnsville in 2 storm reports in 2011: 2 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
May 2011HailJohnsville$3,000no account filed
May 2011HailJohnsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erath 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
Three Way0.8 miles13
Selden4.3 miles13
Duffau4.4 miles12
Chalk Mountain6.1 miles15
Welcome Valley7.6 miles15
Clairette8.9 miles12
Knob Hill10.0 miles14
Stephenville10.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378499. 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.