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Osceola, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Itasca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76055. The Survey maps it on the Itasca quadrangle.

Osceola within Hill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

173 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Osceola between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,353 acres in total. 1 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 burning94
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUZZARD/TRANSFORMER
7 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service159
3 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service185
27 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service205
25 September 2012Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service143
2 September 2011Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service149
18 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service195
17 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service615 HCR 1450 S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osceola in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 4 hail, 2 tornado, 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 2024HailOsceola$75,000Broadcast media sent photo of 3 to 3.5 inch hail in the Itasca area.
June 2024HailOsceola-Reported via mPing.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindOsceola-A large tree was blown down along County Road 1450 WSW of Itasca.
May 1994Tornado (F0)Osceola-A brief tornado touchdown was reported.
October 1996HailOsceola-no account filed
October 1996HailOsceola-no account filed
October 1996Tornado (F0)Osceola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hill 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
Mayfield2.9 miles15
Covington3.7 miles17
Grub Hill4.1 miles17
Itasca4.6 miles14
Woodrow4.9 miles17
Blanton5.0 miles17
Woodbury5.6 miles15
Lovelace6.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1343325. 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.