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Patroon, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Shelbyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75973. It stands on Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Patroon South quadrangle.

Patroon within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Patroon between 1992 and 2018, burning about 367 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Other causes1

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
30 September 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution4.7 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasSHEEP DOG FIRE
1 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 87 @ BULL BAY (FIREAPHB)
8 August 1996Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2006Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 451
31 August 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 197
26 August 1996Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2010Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 094

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Patroon in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 1998: 2 hail. 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
January 1998HailPatroon-no account filed
May 1996HailPatroon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
East Liberty2.6 miles12
Hawthorne2.9 miles12
Alexanders Store2.9 miles14
West Hamilton (historical)3.2 miles14
Goober Hill3.3 miles14
Dreka3.8 miles14
Jordans Store4.5 miles14
Hurstown5.7 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122543306The 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 1382461. 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.