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Midyett, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the De Berry-Deadwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75639. The Survey maps it on the River Hill quadrangle.

Midyett within Panola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Midyett between 1992 and 2020, burning about 635 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 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 burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Natural10
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 222
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 484
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 481
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 209
3 September 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2007Natural60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 119

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Panola County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midyett in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 1994Thunderstorm WindMidyett$5,000Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindMidyett-Trees downed south of De Berry.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMidyett-An NWS Storm Survey was conducted south/southeast of De Berry TX, finding sporadic wind damage. A few snapped trees and large tree branches were found downed along FM Road 123 between County Road 323 and Oilfield Road. More tree damage was found along Oilfield Road, with a few snapped trunks along with large limbs and branches down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMidyett-Trees downed on FM Road 123 south of De Berry.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMidyett-A 58 mph wind gust was recorded at the Texas Water Development Board Mesonet site south of De Berry.
November 2018Flash FloodMidyett-FM 123 just east of Highway 79 southwest of DeBerry was flooded and closed near Mill Creek.

Every storm recorded in Panola 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
River Hill2.8 miles17
DeBerry4.7 miles13
De Berry4.8 miles13
Centennial5.5 miles17
Hudson Mast6.0 miles13
Deadwood6.7 miles17
Horton8.2 miles13
Walnut Grove9.0 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 MidyettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122561305The 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 2034795. 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.