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Kittrell, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Riverside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75862. It stands on Eve Branch. The Survey maps it on the Trinity West quadrangle.

Kittrell within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

62 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Kittrell between 1995 and 2020, burning about 4,164 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 3 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 burning21
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 424
26 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 427
11 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use570 acresLivingston AreaBO BROWN RD
9 August 2010Natural432 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 257
25 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4539
25 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service221
22 August 2018Natural432 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALKER WEST
22 August 1997Natural130 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kittrell: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Halite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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
Kittrell Salt DomeHalite, Gypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence1933
Texas Clay Industries Inc OperationClayProducer

Every working recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kittrell in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 1 funnel cloud, 1 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 2024Flash FloodKittrell-FM 3478 to the west of Trinity was made impassable due to flash flooding.
April 2020Funnel CloudKittrell-A funnel cloud was sighted.
April 2020HailKittrell-Quarter sized hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
Riverside9.2 miles13
Gospel Hill12.0 miles12
Arizona12.2 miles13
Pine Prairie12.8 miles13
Carolina13.0 miles13
Mossy Grove15.6 miles10
Dodge16.0 miles13
Harmony16.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034992. 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.