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Johntown, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Bogata census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75417. It stands on Lake Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bogata quadrangle.

Johntown within Red River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

245 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Johntown between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,659 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 6 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 burning161
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use19
Natural15
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGOLDEN LONG
6 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4TH SW GRASS FIRE 9/6
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 271S GRASS FIRE 9/5
30 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 37S GRASS FIRE 9/30
3 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 37S GRASS FIRE 9/28
28 September 2001Arson/incendiarism30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 139

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red River County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johntown in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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
February 2018Flash FloodJohntown-Highway 37 closed between Bogota and Hagansport due to flooding.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindJohntown-Trees were blown down along County Road 1100 southwest of Bogota.
May 2012HailJohntown-Quarter sized hail was reported in Johntown, Texas.
October 2010HailJohntown-Hail reported on CR. 1100 south of Bogata, Texas.
April 1995HailJohntown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Red River 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
Rosalie3.7 miles8
Bogata4.0 miles8
Pine Branch5.0 miles8
Cuthand6.8 miles8
Rugby7.2 miles8
Halesboro7.6 miles8
Shadowland8.9 miles8
Sherry9.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1360356. 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.