Peavy, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lufkin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75904. The Survey maps it on the Keltys quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1949 USGS Keltys quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Keltys quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
132 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Peavy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,012 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 14 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 burning | 84 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE PEAVY SWITCH |
| 5 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 663 |
| 30 September 1993 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 247 |
| 22 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 256 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peavy in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2021: 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peavy | $75,000 | A 62 mph gust was measured from the Angelina County airport ASOS. These winds resulted in trees falling into two homes and the roofs being partialy blown off by two more homes in the Diboll community. |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | Peavy | - | FM 2497 was closed due to flooding. |
| April 2021 | Flash Flood | Peavy | - | FM 2497 was closed due to flooding. Sections of the roadway were washed out. |
| December 2018 | Flash Flood | Peavy | - | FM 2497 near Cedar Creek was flooded and closed. |
| October 2018 | Flash Flood | Peavy | - | FM 2497 between County Road 62A to Peavy Switch Road was closed due to high water. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Peavy | - | Farm to Market Road 2497 was closed due to flooding. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Peavy | - | Ryan's Chapel Road (FM 2497) was flooded and closed. |
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 Peavy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q110530760 | 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 1382469. 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.






