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Nogalus, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Apple Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75847. The Survey maps it on the Centralia quadrangle.

Nogalus within Trinity County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Nogalus between 1992 and 2020, burning about 924 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 13 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 burning27
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
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
8 September 2009Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 245
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 523
30 September 2002Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 164
29 September 1992Debris and open burning4.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In Texasnot named
21 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In Texasnot named
8 August 2019Debris and open burning11 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRINITY 15:12
8 August 1996Natural20 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasNOGALUS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nogalus in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 1 tornado, 1 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 WindNogalus$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
April 2023HailNogalus-Golf ball sized hail was observed (via MPING).
April 1997Tornado (F0)Nogalus-no account filed

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
Center Point0.6 miles11
Centralia2.6 miles11
Crecy4.1 miles10
Friendship5.7 miles10
Centerville5.7 miles10
Apple Springs6.8 miles10
Helmic7.5 miles10
Pennington9.0 miles10

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 NogalusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7047444The 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 1382400. 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.