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Joplin, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Perrin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76426. It lies near Wampler Hill. The Survey maps it on the Gibtown quadrangle.

Joplin within Jack 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

64 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Joplin between 2005 and 2016, burning about 3,933 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOILFIELD RD FIRE
15 August 2006Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2012Debris and open burning120 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGROVELAND
13 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jack County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Joplin in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 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
June 2011HailJoplin-no account filed
April 2001HailJoplin-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
Westbrook3.3 miles8
Gibtown4.9 miles8
Vineyard5.3 miles8
Perrin5.7 miles8
Wizard Wells7.5 miles8
Jacksboro12.2 miles9
Bartons Chapel13.0 miles8
Maryetta14.8 miles7

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 JoplinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6276165The 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 1378503. 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.