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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.

Peavy within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

132 since 1992

Regional 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 burning84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism14
Smoking4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE PEAVY SWITCH
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 663
30 September 1993Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 1992Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 247
22 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 256

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina County

Storms near this place

7 since 2009

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009Thunderstorm WindPeavy$75,000A 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 2021Flash FloodPeavy-FM 2497 was closed due to flooding.
April 2021Flash FloodPeavy-FM 2497 was closed due to flooding. Sections of the roadway were washed out.
December 2018Flash FloodPeavy-FM 2497 near Cedar Creek was flooded and closed.
October 2018Flash FloodPeavy-FM 2497 between County Road 62A to Peavy Switch Road was closed due to high water.
August 2017Flash FloodPeavy-Farm to Market Road 2497 was closed due to flooding.
August 2017Flash FloodPeavy-Ryan's Chapel Road (FM 2497) was flooded and closed.

Every storm recorded in Angelina 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
Granville1.9 miles11
Providence2.2 miles11
Hudson2.6 miles11
Blix3.7 miles11
Burke4.9 miles11
Woodlawn5.1 miles11
Lufkin5.2 miles14
Keltys5.6 miles11

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 PeavyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110530760The 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.