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Kossuth, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Palestine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75801. It stands on Snake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Slocum quadrangle.

Kossuth within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

199 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Kossuth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,713 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 19 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 burning104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Natural21
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2009Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 210
8 September 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 228
5 September 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceACR 379
4 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minor250 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 468
22 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 561
22 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 559
2 September 2005Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 205
17 September 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOBBS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kossuth in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2012Thunderstorm WindKossuth$1,000A storm spotter reported large limbs blocking highway 84 8 miles east of Palestine.
January 2011HailKossuth$1,000Golfball size hail fell along Farm-to-Market Road 323 about 7 miles southeast of Palestine.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindKossuth-A social media report indicated multiple downed trees blocking the road near the intersection of FM 1817 and FM 323, just north of the city of Slocum.
December 2024HailKossuth-A public report and photos indicated ping pong to golf ball sized hail.
February 2008HailKossuth-Hail the size of half-dollars was reported at Crystal Lake.

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Crystal Lake0.4 miles10
Deanwright2.4 miles10
Jarvis3.0 miles11
Alderbranch4.3 miles11
Wells Creek4.9 miles13
Herring5.3 miles11
Palestine7.1 miles13
Flint Hill7.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380039. 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.