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Leigh, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Waskom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75661. The Survey maps it on the Scottsville quadrangle.

Leigh within Harrison County

On record in Leigh

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Leigh between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,795 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 10 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 burning87
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Natural12
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS/WOODS
8 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use115 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 369
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 546
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 541
4 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 532
30 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 152

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leigh in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2015Thunderstorm WindLeigh$150,000National Weather Service Storm Survey Team determined that damage across Northeast Harrison County was consistent with that of straight line wind damage to near 90 mph. Numerous trees and powerlines were downed in and around the Karnack and Uncertain Texas communities. Some of these trees fell on homes in the area as well.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindLeigh$15,000Trees were downed and there was wind damage reported to a home near the Leigh community.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindLeigh$5,000Some trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
March 2016Flash FloodLeigh-High water washed vehicles off the road in the community of Leigh, Texas.
July 2009Flash FloodLeigh-Water was reported over the road at the intersection of FM 1999 and CR 9.
November 2007Thunderstorm WindLeigh-Trees were blown down between Waskom and Karnack along FM 134.

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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
Lotta2.3 miles15
Latex4.7 miles15
Karnack4.8 miles14
South Shore5.2 miles15
Swansons Landing6.3 miles15
Scottsville7.2 miles14
Uncertain7.4 miles15
Jonesville7.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1339802. 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.