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Newport, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bellevue-Joy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76230. The Survey maps it on the Newport quadrangle. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Newport within Clay 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

55 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Newport between 2005 and 2020, burning about 5,865 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Fireworks1
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 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGILBERT FIRE
26 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6T RD. FIRE
25 September 2006Debris and open burning12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2006Arson/incendiarism23 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRAY FIRE
26 August 2020Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE ON JEFFIRES RD
10 August 2008Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newport in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2015Thunderstorm WindNewport-No damage reported.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindNewport-Thunderstorm in the western part of north Texas during the evening hours on the 24th produced hail in excess of quarter-size and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds blew shingles off of roofs from 10 to 12 miles east of Henrietta.
March 2018HailNewport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Vashti6.2 miles7
Buffalo Springs9.0 miles7
Prospect9.3 miles8
Bellevue11.6 miles7
Shannon12.9 miles9
Joy12.9 miles7
Bluegrove18.2 miles7
Deer Creek18.5 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.

Wikipedia article on NewportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711147The 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 1363855. 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.