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Nash, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Waxahachie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75165. The Survey maps it on the Forreston quadrangle.

Nash within Ellis 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

44 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Nash between 2006 and 2017, burning about 360 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
27 September 2014Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1412860
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 September 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 August 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nash in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2011: 2 hail. 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
June 2009HailNash-Nickel size hail was reported just north of Avalon.
April 2011HailNash-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Howard2.8 miles9
Forreston2.9 miles9
Lumkins3.1 miles9
Nelson4.1 miles9
Avalon4.3 miles9
Five Points4.8 miles11
Nena4.8 miles9
Reagor Springs5.1 miles9

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 Q49357375The 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 1378727. 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.