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Kelsey, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Gilmer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75644. It stands on Coon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pritchett quadrangle.

Kelsey within Upshur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

523 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 523 fires within 5 miles of Kelsey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,674 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 22 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 burning354
Missing data/not specified/undetermined85
Arson/incendiarism22
Equipment and vehicle use22
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Natural11
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

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 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12-262
9 September 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 352
8 September 2015Natural6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15-0282
8 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 229
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1289 IRONWOOD
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14-0291

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upshur County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kelsey: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed PitClayProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Upshur County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kelsey in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2009LightningKelsey$10,000An oil tank was struck by lightning on FM 1795 just north of the Kelsey Community. The tank was destroyed.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindKelsey-A horse loafing shed suffered roof and wall damage on Kelsey Creek Road and Cox Trail south of Highway 154. Trees were also downed in this area as well.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindKelsey-A 10 x 15 portable building was blown over near the intersection of Highway 154 and Kelsey Road west of Gilmer.
March 2014Thunderstorm WindKelsey-Trees were downed north of Gilmer, Texas.
March 2010HailKelsey-no account filed
March 2010HailKelsey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Upshur 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
Summerfield1.5 miles13
Rosewood2.1 miles13
Latch2.6 miles13
Enoch2.8 miles12
Enon2.9 miles13
Rhonesboro5.1 miles14
Pritchett5.1 miles13
Shady Grove5.6 miles13

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 KelseyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6386465The 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 1378521. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.