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Nigton, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Apple Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75926. It stands on West Mark Branch. The Survey maps it on the Apple Springs quadrangle.

Nigton within Trinity County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

63 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Nigton between 1993 and 2020, burning about 733 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 10 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 burning20
Natural12
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In Texasnot named
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism8.2 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasWOMACK #2
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined235 acresLivingston AreaWOMACK ROAD FIRE
30 September 1999Naturalunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasHACKBERRY
19 September 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRINITY 18:54
19 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use69 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7111
18 September 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOLT CUTTER
11 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasC-116 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nigton in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2015: 1 flash flood, 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
May 2015Thunderstorm WindNigton$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
October 2009Flash FloodNigton-FM 2262 and FM 357 closed due to water over the roadways.

Every storm recorded in Trinity 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
Apple Springs3.1 miles10
Vair4.1 miles12
Helmic5.0 miles10
Trevat7.3 miles12
Centralia7.4 miles11
Centerville7.7 miles10
Crecy7.9 miles10
Nogalus9.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1383751. 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.