Peaster, Texas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Weatherford Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76088. It stands on Peaster Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weatherford North quadrangle. 100 people lived here at the last count. It stands 1,188 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Weatherford North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
155 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Peaster between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,077 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 73 |
| Debris and open burning | 43 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9000 BLOCK MINERAL WELLS HIGHWAY |
| 6 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 920 & ANGUS DRIVE |
| 29 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1500 COLD SPRINGS RD |
| 16 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RUSSELL BEND |
| 12 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7001 FM 920 |
| 9 August 2008 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OLD GARNER FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peaster in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 11 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peaster | $50,000 | A home was severely damaged, and a travel trailer was blown over by high winds. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Peaster | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Peaster | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Hail | Peaster | - | Amateur radio reported nickel sized hail on FM 51 approximately 5 miles north of the city of Weatherford, TX. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Peaster | - | Amateur radio reported quarter sized hail in the city of Peaster, TX. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Peaster | - | Amateur radio reported one-inch diameter hail approximately 6 miles north of Weatherford, TX. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Peaster | - | Amateur radio reported one-inch diameter hail approximately 6 miles north of Weatherford, TX. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Peaster | - | Quarter sized hail was reported 4 miles north of Weatherford. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Peaster | - | Hail up to the size of quarters was reported in Peaster. |
| September 2003 | Flash Flood | Peaster | - | Flash flooding occurred at Highway 920 and Dry Creek. |
| October 2002 | Flash Flood | Peaster | - | Several roads off FM 920 near Peaster covered with two feet of water. |
| May 1997 | Flash Flood | Peaster | - | Low-lying areas were flooded on Farm-to-Market Road 920. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Peaster | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Peaster | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Peaster | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Peaster | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3053758 | The 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 1378845. 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.






