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Norse, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cranfills Gap census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76634. It stands on Norse Hill. The Survey maps it on the Sugarloaf Mountain quadrangle. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Norse within Bosque County

On record in Norse

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

77 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Norse between 2005 and 2020, burning about 655 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning48
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1
Natural1
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
30 September 2011Recreation and ceremony10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUSHIA
23 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRONNY LAIRDON
21 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2011Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEBB
1 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4155
23 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4226
19 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEWIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bosque County

Storms near this place

8 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norse in 8 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 flood. 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 2024HailNorse$8,000Media sent a photo of estimated tennis-ball size hail in between Meridian and Cranfills Gap in Bosque County.
April 2016Flash FloodNorse$1,000The Bosque County emergency manager reported Farm to Market Road 219 six miles west of Clifton was closed due to flash flooding.
May 2024Flash FloodNorse-Emergency management reported multiple county road closures due to flooding including CR 4235. Several bridge approaches were washed out.
May 2024HailNorse-Law enforcement reported quarter-sized hail in Norse.
March 2021Tornado (EFU)Norse-A tornado was reported and verified by storm chasers. The tornado was intermittent for about 3 minutes. No damage was reported.
April 2016FloodNorse-Flood waters continued to recede in and around the town of Clifton after 4 inches of rain fell in the area.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindNorse-Emergency management reported wind gusts to 60 MPH near the intersection of FM 182 and FM 219.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindNorse-A public report of tree damage was received between Clifton and Cranfille Gap, TX.

Every storm recorded in Bosque 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
Crossroad Store1.6 miles12
Clifton5.4 miles12
Pendell7.5 miles12
Bosque7.7 miles12
Cranfills Gap8.2 miles13
Mosheim9.7 miles12
Womack10.9 miles15
Cayote11.4 miles15

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 NorseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60744989The 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 2034564. 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.