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New York, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the LaRue-Poynor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75770. It stands on Maggie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leagueville quadrangle.

New York within Henderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of New York between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,240 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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 burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service0908173 PASTUR FIRE W/ EUSTACE
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.2 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJAMES RAY
24 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7130
21 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 114
21 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New York in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 3 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 2026HailNew York-Amateur radio operator reported quarter sized hail in New York Texas.
March 2025HailNew York-Broadcast media reported half dollar size hail near New York southwest of Moore Station.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindNew York-A trained spotter reported a downed tree, eight inches in diameter, along CR 4832 outside of New York.
January 1998HailNew York-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
LaRue3.5 miles15
Baxter4.2 miles15
Leagueville4.4 miles15
Moore Station5.5 miles15
Fincastle6.0 miles15
New Hope6.9 miles13
Antioch7.1 miles15
Pine Grove7.1 miles16

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 New YorkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1251262The 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 1378753. 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.