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Mereta, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the East Tom Green census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76940. It stands on Dry Lipan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mereta quadrangle. It stands 1,755 feet above sea level.

Mereta within Tom Green 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

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Mereta between 2006 and 2020, burning about 516 acres in total. 2 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 August 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 765
1 August 2009Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePOWELL LANE AND KKOTRLA RD
5 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE W FM 1692
29 July 2010Arson/incendiarism250 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceF.M. 380 AND F.M. 381
1 July 2020Natural67 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePHINNY RD
8 June 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service14873 F.M. 765
18 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined110 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceARRINGTON RD
20 May 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tom Green County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mereta in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 1995Tornado (F1)Mereta$150,000no account filed
November 2024FloodMereta-Law enforcement reported FM 1692 was flooded at the Willow Creek bridge.
May 2023HailMereta-A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail 4 miles north-northwest of Mereta.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindMereta-A trained spotter reported power poles blown down at the intersection of Farm to Market Rd 1692 and Broom Rd.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindMereta-The public reported a steel frame structure and porta potties knocked down at the intersection of FM 380 and North 4th Road near Mereta.
May 2017HailMereta-Half dollar size hail was reported by the public near Mereta.
September 2012Flash FloodMereta-The San Angelo Department of Public Safety reported water over the road at the Concho River Bridge on Farm to Market road 1692.
April 1996HailMereta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tom Green 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
Sixteen Mile Crossing6.2 miles14
Seventeen Mile Crossing6.3 miles14
Veribest6.4 miles13
Mullins Crossing6.8 miles14
Vancourt8.1 miles11
Wall10.5 miles13
Sixmile Crossing10.7 miles13
Harriet11.3 miles15

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 MeretaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6819054The 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 1362628. 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.