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Nat, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Cushing-Douglass census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75964. The Survey maps it on the Lake Nacogdoches North quadrangle.

Nat within Nacogdoches 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Nat between 1992 and 2020, burning about 280 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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 burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
5 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 217
26 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 580
25 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service20110925
20 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 485
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 525
13 September 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2016Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nat in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 1 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
April 2015Flash FloodNat-High water was reported near the intersection of Hwy. 21 and County Road 841 west of Nacogdoches, Texas.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindNat-Several trees were downed west of Nacogdoches.

Every storm recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Looneyville3.6 miles11
Winter Hill3.7 miles11
Lilbert4.2 miles11
Douglass4.3 miles11
County Line5.9 miles11
Trawick5.9 miles11
Oak Flat6.4 miles11
Cushing7.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1363601. 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.