Kent, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Van Horn Rural census division. It stands on Kent Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Kent quadrangle. 60 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 4,206 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1928 USGS Kent quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Kent quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Kent between 2008 and 2014, burning about 288 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | I-10 NEAR MP 172 |
| 10 August 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RR NEAR MP 166 ON RR |
| 12 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | I-10 NEAR MP 162 |
| 28 June 2008 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 June 2014 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | I-10 NEAR MP 172 |
| 23 June 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | I-10 NEAR MP 172 |
| 18 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | I-10 NEAR MP 162 |
| 16 June 2013 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS/RR NEAR MP 166 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kent in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kent | - | A thunderstorm moved across Culberson County and produced a 64 mph wind gust nineteen miles west southwest of Red Bluff. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kent | - | A thunderstorm moved across Culberson County and produced a 59 mph wind gust eighteen miles west of Orla at the Orla Gas Plant. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Kent | - | A thunderstorm moved over Culberson County and produced tennis ball sized hail 35 miles west of Pecos. Winds of up to 60 mph were also reported with this storm. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Kent | - | Nickel hail fell on the Culberson/Jeff Davis county line on Texas Highway 118. |
| April 2007 | Flash Flood | Kent | - | Water was flowing over a road just southwest of Kent. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Kent | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Levinson | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| Boracho | 9.1 miles | 8 | |
| Ort | 17.3 miles | 8 | |
| Grisham Pumping Station | 26.4 miles | 8 | |
| Van Horn | 32.6 miles | 13 | |
| Old Christian Place | 32.7 miles | 6 | |
| Lobo | 33.4 miles | 12 | |
| Corner Windmill | 34.6 miles | 13 |
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 Kent | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6391575 | The 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 1360590. 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.




