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Nelta, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the North Hopkins-Sulphur Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75437. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Bluff quadrangle.

Nelta within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Nelta between 2003 and 2018, burning about 288 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
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
24 September 2011Natural39 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 629
20 August 2006Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 597
11 April 2018Debris and open burning16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOPKINS 15:57
28 December 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 December 2003Recreation and ceremony45 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 365
25 November 2008Debris and open burning142 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 180
13 October 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN-689
5 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nelta in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2026Thunderstorm WindNelta-The Hopkins County Sheriff reported large trees down near the intersection of CR 3563 and CR 3562 midway between Dike and Sulphur Bluff.
March 2011HailNelta-Quarter size hail fell in the town of Nelta.

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Oakdale2.6 miles9
Shirley3.6 miles9
Sandhill4.0 miles9
Flora4.0 miles8
Hatchetville4.1 miles9
Oak Grove4.2 miles9
Dike4.4 miles9
Sulphur Bluff4.6 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 Q122542392The 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 1380241. 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.