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Owentown, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Tyler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75708. It stands on Ray Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winona quadrangle. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Owentown within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

373 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 373 fires within 5 miles of Owentown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,913 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 19 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 burning214
Missing data/not specified/undetermined85
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking12
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
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
9 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 September 2005Smoking10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 231
9 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 121
9 September 2004Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 120
8 September 2019Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMITH 10:35
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6301
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use350 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJACKSON COMPLEX
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith County

Storms near this place

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Owentown in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2021Thunderstorm WindOwentown-A tree was blown down across FM 2908 south of Highway 271.
February 2020Flash FloodOwentown-Highway 271 was flooded just south of I-20.
February 2020Flash FloodOwentown-FM 3311 north of I-20 over Wiggins Creek was washed out.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindOwentown-Trees were blown down along both County Road 384 and FM 2908.
June 2018HailOwentown-Quarter size hail fell at the University of Texas Health Science Center north of Tyler.
May 2017HailOwentown-Quarter size hail fell about one-half mile north of Interstate 20 on Highway 155.
April 2016HailOwentown-A photo was posted to the KLTV Facebook page of penny to nickel size hail that fell at the UT Health Science Center near Tyler.
April 2008HailOwentown-Hail fell just south of Highway 271.
April 2014HailOwentown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Smith 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
Winona4.0 miles15
Pine Springs4.6 miles15
Shady Grove4.6 miles15
Starrville4.8 miles15
Bostick5.2 miles15
Midway5.5 miles15
Sand Flat5.7 miles15
Waters Bluff6.1 miles13

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 OwentownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076547The 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 1343379. 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.