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Linn Flat, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Cushing-Douglass census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75964. It stands on Seelbach Branch. The Survey maps it on the Trawick quadrangle.

Linn Flat within Nacogdoches 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Linn Flat between 1992 and 2020, burning about 710 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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 burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 530
8 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 529
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 489
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNACOGDOCHES 17:34
4 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON-7121
29 September 2010Arson/incendiarism25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 112
27 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 570
25 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service20110925

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this place

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linn Flat in 13 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2025HailLinn Flat-Quarter size hail reported between Garrison and Cushing.
April 2020HailLinn Flat-Nickel size hail fell along Highway 259 northwest of Appleby.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindLinn Flat-Several trees were blown down east of Cushing. A tree was blown down on a home.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLinn Flat-A tree was blown down about 6 miles northwest of Redfield.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLinn Flat-A tree was blown down across Farm to Market Road 1087 about 100 yards east of Highway 259.
April 2015HailLinn Flat-Quarter size hail was reported 7 miles south of Mount Enterprise, Texas.
April 2015HailLinn Flat-Golfball sized hail covered the ground 5 miles south of Mount Enterprise, Texas.
March 2014HailLinn Flat-Hail was reported south of Mount Enterprise, Texas.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLinn Flat-Trees were downed east of Cushing, Texas.
November 2011Tornado (EF1)Linn Flat-The tornado touched down just east of Happy Valley along HWY. 817. It continued on an east-northeasterly path, causing sporadic tree damage along FM 950 and FM 3272 before crossing into southern Rusk County. Maximum winds were estimated at 90 mph.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLinn Flat-Trees were downed along U.S. Hwy 259.
May 2008HailLinn Flat-Hail fell on U.S. Hwy 259.
February 2008HailLinn Flat-Hail fell for about two minutes.

Every storm recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Trawick1.4 miles11
Caro2.8 miles11
Oak Flat3.5 miles11
Happy Valley4.2 miles11
Pleasant Hill4.8 miles11
Mahl4.9 miles12
North Redland5.2 miles12
Cushing6.0 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122593094The 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 1380089. 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.