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North Prairie, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Chilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76632. The Survey maps it on the Chilton quadrangle.

North Prairie within Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

30 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of North Prairie between 2008 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. None 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
5 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service540 RIVERVIEW RD
17 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN/A
5 July 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service101849
3 July 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
26 July 2020Debris and open burning8.6 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEGRATE
4 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJJ FLEWELLEN ROAD FIRE
19 June 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service527 HONEY LN.
17 May 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Prairie in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 5 hail, 2 flash 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
March 2018HailNorth Prairie$5,000A public report indicated golf ball sized hail approximately 5 miles south of the city of Golinda, TX.
May 2010HailNorth Prairie$1,000Waco broadcast media reported nickel to golfball sized hail covering the ground 6 miles north of Lott along Highway 77.
March 2018HailNorth Prairie-A public report indicated ping pong sized hail approximately 6 miles south southwest of the city of Golinda, TX.
March 2016Flash FloodNorth Prairie-Falls County Sheriff's Department reported significant mud on the road that washed up from the fields along Hwy 77 near Hwy 429.
October 2010HailNorth Prairie-Quarter size hail was reported in Golinda.
April 2008HailNorth Prairie-Nickel-size hail was reported in Golinda.
August 1996Flash FloodNorth Prairie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Falls 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
Golinda2.5 miles15
Satin2.8 miles14
Guda2.9 miles14
Mooreville4.1 miles15
Chilton4.4 miles14
Dott6.0 miles14
Triangle6.5 miles8
Rocky Hill7.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380266. 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.