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Pattonville, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Deport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75468. The Survey maps it on the Pattonville quadrangle. It stands 499 feet above sea level.

Pattonville within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

60 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Pattonville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 871 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning39
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2009Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1700 FM 2120
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
4 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1053
21 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 448
13 September 2010Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1055
5 August 2011Debris and open burning210 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 367
29 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
29 August 2010Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1051

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pattonville in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 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
December 2015Flash FloodPattonville$8,000A high water rescue was performed near Highway 271 and CR 14250 southeast of Paris.
October 2009Flash FloodPattonville-TxDOT had to close down HWY 271 just west of Pattonville for several hours due to water over the road.
December 2001Flash FloodPattonville-FM 2715 at Pattonville creek closed due to flooding. Surrounding county roads were also closed due to flooding.
April 2021HailPattonville-no account filed
February 2005HailPattonville-no account filed
March 2000HailPattonville-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindPattonville-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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Byrdtown2.7 miles8
Hoover2.8 miles8
Jennings3.9 miles8
Clardy4.2 miles8
Milton4.5 miles8
Sylvan5.0 miles8
Marvin5.2 miles8
Deport5.5 miles8

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 PattonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7148663The 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 1364893. 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.