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Middle Water, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dalhart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79022. The Survey maps it on the Middle Water quadrangle.

Middle Water within Hartley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 Middle Water between 2006 and 2018, burning about 478 acres in total. 9 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
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
8 September 2007Natural78 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2 WEST OF CO RD L ON HWY 54
18 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service20 WEST HWY 54
7 August 2007Natural11 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 54 WEST
25 August 2009Natural163 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTAYLOR RANCH
23 August 2010Natural7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD L
11 August 2007Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hartley County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middle Water in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 9 hail, 2 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
May 2024HailMiddle Water$3,000Hail of tennis ball size broke the windows out of a work truck.
March 2019HailMiddle Water-Trained spotter reported quarter size hail with thunderstorm.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMiddle Water-From the KVII school net site at Olson Ranch.
June 2017HailMiddle Water-Storm spotter found hail on us HWY 54 about 20 miles SW of Dalhart.
April 2016HailMiddle Water-Quarter size hail fell 12 miles northeast of Romero.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindMiddle Water-Two to four inch tree limbs were reported broken off.
May 2022HailMiddle Water-no account filed
April 2018HailMiddle Water-no account filed
May 2010HailMiddle Water-no account filed
April 2002HailMiddle Water-no account filed
May 1996HailMiddle Water-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hartley 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
King5.3 miles6
Twin Mill7.5 miles6
Rehm11.1 miles6
Romero11.3 miles6
Hartley20.9 miles6
Channing26.8 miles6
Wilco28.9 miles6
Exum33.8 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1362767. 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.