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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.

Kent within Culberson 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

32 since 2008

Regional 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/undetermined20
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Debris and open burning1

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
18 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceI-10 NEAR MP 172
10 August 2011Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRR NEAR MP 166 ON RR
12 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceI-10 NEAR MP 162
28 June 2008Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 June 2014Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceI-10 NEAR MP 172
23 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceI-10 NEAR MP 172
18 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceI-10 NEAR MP 162
16 June 2013Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS/RR NEAR MP 166

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Culberson County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2019Thunderstorm WindKent-A thunderstorm moved across Culberson County and produced a 64 mph wind gust nineteen miles west southwest of Red Bluff.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindKent-A thunderstorm moved across Culberson County and produced a 59 mph wind gust eighteen miles west of Orla at the Orla Gas Plant.
April 2012HailKent-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 2007HailKent-Nickel hail fell on the Culberson/Jeff Davis county line on Texas Highway 118.
April 2007Flash FloodKent-Water was flowing over a road just southwest of Kent.
April 2010HailKent-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Culberson 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
Levinson5.6 miles9
Boracho9.1 miles8
Ort17.3 miles8
Grisham Pumping Station26.4 miles8
Van Horn32.6 miles13
Old Christian Place32.7 miles6
Lobo33.4 miles12
Corner Windmill34.6 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 KentAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6391575The 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.