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Nada, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Garwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77460. The Survey maps it on the Garwood quadrangle. 231 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 154 feet above sea level.

Nada within Colorado County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Nada between 2008 and 2009, burning about 52 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
19 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 January 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2886 CR 475

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colorado County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Nada: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Blue Roan Bend Dredge & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Blue Roan Bend PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Colorado County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nada in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2004Funnel CloudNada-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Colorado 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
Garwood3.1 miles9
Eldridge4.7 miles9
Boedecker Junction5.3 miles9
Matthews7.3 miles9
Gwinns Crossing (historical)10.3 miles10
Rayner Junction10.7 miles10
Lakeside11.5 miles10
Altair12.0 miles10

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 NadaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711102The 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 1342352. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.