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Padgett, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Olney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76374. The Survey maps it on the Padgett quadrangle.

Padgett within Young County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

38 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Padgett between 2005 and 2020, burning about 860 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural5
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
7 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHERRING
18 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceED FURR (HELTON FIRE)
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 210
14 September 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBISHOP ROAD
8 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2020135
7 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Young County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Padgett: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Avery Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Young County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Padgett in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2005: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2005Flash FloodPadgett-Flooding of roads near Spring Creek.
April 2003HailPadgett-no account filed
April 1998HailPadgett-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindPadgett-no account filed
October 1993HailPadgett-no account filed
October 1993HailPadgett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Young 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
Proffitt Crossing5.0 miles8
Proffitt7.8 miles8
Olney9.6 miles8
True9.7 miles8
Newcastle11.7 miles10
Belknap (historical)13.7 miles10
Jean15.6 miles8
Murray16.9 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1364682. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.