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Longworth, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Roby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79556. The Survey maps it on the Longworth quadrangle. It stands 1,969 feet above sea level.

Longworth within Fisher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

40 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Longworth between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,461 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None was 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3

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 2006Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2014Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRON STONE
30 September 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2015Debris and open burning100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMATTHEW BARRERA
27 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSUSAN KENNEDY
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTX DOT
16 September 2005Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fisher County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Longworth: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jim Walter QuarryGypsum-AnhydriteProducer

Every working recorded in Fisher County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Longworth in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 11 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 WindLongworth-The strong thunderstorm winds downed several highway signs and large tree limbs in the Longworth and Sylvester area.
May 2015Flash FloodLongworth-FM 57 flooded in several places between Longworth and Sylvester. Some locations had as much as half a foot of flowing water over the roadway.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Longworth-Storm chasers reported the tornado touched down briefly in an open field.
May 2023HailLongworth-no account filed
March 2018HailLongworth-no account filed
April 2016HailLongworth-no account filed
June 2013HailLongworth-no account filed
April 2009HailLongworth-no account filed
June 2009HailLongworth-no account filed
May 2005HailLongworth-no account filed
May 2002HailLongworth-no account filed
May 2002HailLongworth-no account filed
September 2000HailLongworth-no account filed
April 1997HailLongworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fisher 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
Busby4.4 miles12
Palava5.0 miles13
Roby6.7 miles12
Sylvester6.9 miles12
Center7.8 miles12
Capitola8.0 miles12
Pledger8.1 miles15
Gannon9.7 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 LongworthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60762898The 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 1374718. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.