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Levita, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Purmela-Levita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76528. It stands on Honey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jonesboro quadrangle.

Levita within Coryell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

120 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Levita between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,176 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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 burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEVITA FIRE
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service528
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11000 W HWY 84 FIRE
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service64
26 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCC
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIRELAND FIRE
16 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service133 ADAMS LN
16 September 2011Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHNSON FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Levita in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2019Tornado (EFU)Levita-A trained spotter reported a very brief tornado north of Levita but south of Jonesboro in Coryell County. The location is estimated based on radar.
May 2017HailLevita-Broadcast media reported quarter-sized hail approximately 10 miles west-northwest of the city of Gatesville, TX.
July 2010FloodLevita-Several streets experienced minor flooding and small streams around the county were filled with water.

Every storm recorded in Coryell 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
Ater1.5 miles12
Purmela4.5 miles17
Arnett4.8 miles17
South Purmela5.4 miles17
Ireland5.4 miles11
Ames5.8 miles12
Jonesboro6.9 miles11
Pancake8.5 miles12

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 LevitaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q120972720The 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 1361116. 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.