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Linwood, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Alto census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75925. The Survey maps it on the Douglass quadrangle. It stands 295 feet above sea level.

Linwood within Cherokee 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

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Linwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 784 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 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 burning83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2011Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 536
9 September 2007Debris and open burning1.8 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1999Natural12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
25 September 1999Natural8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linwood in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2021: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
April 2021HailLinwood-Penny size hail fell in the Linwood community.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindLinwood-A large tree was down blocking Highway 21 about 5 miles east of Alto.
May 2017Flash FloodLinwood-Highway 21 was flooded near the Linwood community.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Central High4.4 miles10
Alto4.5 miles10
Redlawn5.8 miles10
Morrill6.3 miles10
Brunswick6.8 miles10
Atoy7.7 miles11
Circle9.5 miles11
Cross Roads9.5 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.

Wikipedia article on LinwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076524The 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 1361248. 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.