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Leggett, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Livingston-Onalaska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77351. It stands on Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leggett quadrangle. It stands 253 feet above sea level.

Leggett within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Leggett between 1992 and 2020, burning about 760 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 7 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural12
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2000Natural125 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 657
29 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2012Natural6.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8087
12 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 195
11 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leggett in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 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 2008Thunderstorm WindLeggett$8,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
January 2016HailLeggett$5,000Golfball sized hail occurred in the Leggett area.
May 1997HailLeggett$5,000no account filed
March 2018HailLeggett-Quarter sized hail was reported.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLeggett-A few trees were reported blown down by local law enforcement in Leggett.

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
New Willard1.9 miles13
Seven Oaks2.4 miles13
Walda3.8 miles13
Bering4.5 miles13
Marston4.6 miles13
Ollie5.1 miles13
Israel5.3 miles12
Bold Springs6.2 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 LeggettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q9343389The 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 1361059. 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.