Novice, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Blossom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75462. It stands on Fought Creek. The Survey maps it on the Slate Shoals quadrangle.

Novice within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1951 USGS Slate Shoals quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

208 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Novice between 1996 and 2019, burning about 2,687 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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 burning	120
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Arson/incendiarism	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	1
Smoking	1
Other causes	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE--1017 CR 45300
6 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
6 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS 43
4 September 2012	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 6219
4 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS
4 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2648
30 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 646
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Novice in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2010: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Novice	$100,000	An EF0 tornado with maximum winds of 75 mph touched down in far northeastern Lamar County. The tornado touched down near FM 195 and CR 46650, and then moved due east, crossing FM 195. Tree damage was noted early in the track. Near the end of the track, the tornado damaged a few barns; causing them to lose part of their roofs. Near this same location, on CR 45600, a manufactured home was damaged and lost part of its roof.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Novice	$5,000	Trees and power lines were blown down across roads.
May 2000	Flash Flood	Novice	-	Heavy rain brought water over county roads south and east of Novice.
April 1995	Hail	Novice	-	During the late evening of the 29th, four supercell thunderstorms developed and moved south-southeast across north Texas producing numerous reports of golf ball- to baseball-size hail, with some hail up to 3.5 inches in diameter in Grapevine and Euless. The first storm came across the Red River into Grayson County moving almost due south before dissipating in eastern Ellis County. Storms two and three developed in northwest and southwest Denton County, respectively, and moved southeast across the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex causing over $220 million in damage before becoming non-severe in Freestone County. Storm two moved across the DFW airport damaging over 100 planes, resulting in hundreds of flight cancellations, and closing the airport temporarily. The fourth storm developed in northern Hood County, then moved nearly due south before dissipating in central Bosque County.
July 2003	Hail	Novice	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Novice	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lone Star	0.2 miles	10
Medill	1.3 miles	10
Pin Hook	3.8 miles	9
Faught	4.0 miles	8
Walnut Ridge	4.1 miles	8
Slate Shoals	4.7 miles	10
Faulkner	5.4 miles	9
Post Oak	6.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380268. 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.