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Navarro Mills, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Blooming Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76679. It stands on Treadwell Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dawson quadrangle.

Navarro Mills within Navarro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

152 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Navarro Mills between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,751 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use26
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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 2011Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREKINDLE COUNTY LINE FIRE
4 September 2011Debris and open burning350 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUTNY LINE RD
30 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNAVARRO MILLS DAM FIRE
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1111870
3 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2015Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE-MUTUAL AID
28 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Navarro Mills in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 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
April 1995HailNavarro Mills-High winds damaged a large sign.

Every storm recorded in Navarro 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
Spring Hill2.1 miles7
Silver City2.5 miles7
Purdon3.5 miles7
Raleigh3.6 miles8
Brushie Prairie4.6 miles8
Dawson4.7 miles7
Dresden5.0 miles8
Emmett6.2 miles8

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 Q122594137The 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 1378728. 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.