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Meaders, Texas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Northeast Dallas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75229. The Survey maps it on the Addison quadrangle.

Meaders within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 24 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

173 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Meaders between 2014 and 2017, burning about 43 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined142
Equipment and vehicle use18
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3860 WALNUT HILL
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOCKINGBIRD
6 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBROOK
30 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHAPEL CREEK
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2928 INWOOD
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2731 NORTHWEST HWY
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHAPEL
3 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFOREST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meaders in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 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
August 2012Flash FloodMeaders$200,000Northwest Highway at Hillcrest Road was closed due to high water. It was also reported that several cars were flooded out in several streets in the northeast portions of Dallas. Rainfall totals as high as 2 in 30 minutes were measured during the heavy rain event.
July 2025Flash FloodMeaders$100,000Broadcast media produced a video of vehicles stalled on north Dallas at West-Northwest Highway near Hillcrest due to about 6 inches of water on the road.
June 2015LightningMeaders$10,000A suspected lightning strike started a house fire near Hillcrest High School in Dallas.
February 2020FloodMeaders$5,000A car was stranded in high water in Dallas at Hillcrest Road and Royal lane. Steady moderate to heavy rain caused minor flooding of some areas in Dallas.
March 2013HailMeaders$3,000Half dollar sized hail was reported at the corner of Dallas' northwest highway and the Dallas North Tollway.
September 2023HailMeaders-Reported via mPing.
April 2018HailMeaders-A social media report indicated penny sized hail approximately 1 mile west of University Park.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMeaders-Amateur radio reported a 60 MPH wind gust near the intersection of Dallas North Tollway and Northwest Highway.
April 2011HailMeaders-Penny to quarter size hail fell near the intersection of Inwood Road and West Northwest Hwy (Loop 12).

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Gifford2.6 miles24
University Park2.7 miles26
Inwood3.0 miles24
Bouchard3.1 miles24
Oldham3.8 miles24
Highland Park3.9 miles26
Addison5.2 miles24
Farmers Branch5.2 miles27

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 Q122540198The 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 1378660. 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.