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Martinsville, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Chireno-Martinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75961. It stands on Kingham Creek. The Survey maps it on the Martinsville quadrangle.

Martinsville 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

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Martinsville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 244 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON-7122
21 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON-7138
16 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7126
10 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON-7133
1 September 2013Fireworks7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7102
5 August 2013Fireworks1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7071
28 August 2011Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 471
14 August 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON-7108

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Martinsville in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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 1999Tornado (F2)Martinsville$250,000The damage was 150 yards wide that began in a rural area, 1/4 mile north of the intersection of Hwy 95 and FM 1878. Damage consisted of a chimney blown down, a large cedar tree snapped in half then blown 20 yards from the stump. A Tyson chicken barn was completely demolished with about 300 chickens killed. Forestry damage consisted of numerous trees fallen. A tin roofing from the chicken barns was tangled in many trees up to 1.2 miles away.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMartinsville-Trees downed on Highway 7 west of Martinsville.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindMartinsville-A tree was downed along County Road 381 southeast of Martinsville.
December 2024HailMartinsville-Quarter size hail reported near Martinsville.
May 2024HailMartinsville-Nickel size hail reported in the Martinsville community.
April 2021Flash FloodMartinsville-FM 95 was flooded in the Polly Branch community.
May 2016Flash FloodMartinsville-TXDOT reported that Farm to Market Road 95 between Martinsville and Chireno was flooded and closed. County Road 384 about 3 miles southeast of Martinsville off of FM 95 was flooded and closed as well.
April 2015HailMartinsville-Dime size hail was reported 11 miles northwest of Chireno, Texas.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindMartinsville-Numerous trees down along State Highway 7.
July 1996HailMartinsville-no account filed

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
Swift4.0 miles11
Cedar Point5.8 miles11
Shady Grove6.0 miles12
Melrose6.5 miles11
Attoyac6.5 miles11
Pisgah7.2 miles12
Oak Ridge8.3 miles12
Chireno10.4 miles13

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 MartinsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6777249The 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 1362239. 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.