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Marston, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Livingston-Onalaska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77351. It stands on Kibble Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Willard quadrangle.

Marston within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Marston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 550 acres in total. 5 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 burning91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Smoking5
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
29 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 935
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceYOUNGBLOOD CHURCH
29 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8059
26 August 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 186

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marston in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2018Thunderstorm WindMarston$12,000Trees were downed across the north central parts of the county.
March 2018HailMarston-Half dollar sized hail was reported on FM 350 North.
April 2011Funnel CloudMarston-A funnel cloud was sighted in a line of severe thunderstorms.

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Israel1.4 miles12
New Willard2.8 miles13
Livingston3.5 miles12
Crystal Lakes Country Estates3.9 miles13
Leggett4.6 miles13
East Tempe5.5 miles12
West Livingston6.4 miles12
Providence6.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380147. 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.