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Jonesboro, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Turnersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76538. The Survey maps it on the Jonesboro quadrangle. It stands 965 feet above sea level.

Jonesboro within Coryell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

119 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Jonesboro between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,168 acres in total. 4 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 burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use27
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
5 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMC MULLEN
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOBBY BUSTERS
16 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOSCAR JONES
12 September 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBROOK MORRIS
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAVENPORT
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAYHEW WATSON
4 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2620 CR 194

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jonesboro in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 4 hail, 1 flash 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
May 2019HailJonesboro-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail in the city of Jonesboro, TX.
April 2018HailJonesboro-Broadcast media reported nickel sized hail in the city of Jonesboro, TX.
April 2016Flash FloodJonesboro-Coryell County Sheriff's Department reported that Farm to market roads 182, 183 and 217 were closed, along with several county roads in northern Coryell County.
May 1998HailJonesboro-no account filed
January 1994HailJonesboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coryell 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
Pancake4.1 miles12
Ireland5.7 miles11
Ater6.4 miles12
Levita6.9 miles11
Turnersville7.3 miles12
Ames8.3 miles12
Purmela10.1 miles17
Hurst Springs10.3 miles12

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 JonesboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6275377The 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 1374322. 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.