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Peden, Texas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fort Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76020. It stands on Swift Branch. The Survey maps it on the Azle quadrangle.

Peden within Tarrant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 20 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

78 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Peden between 2005 and 2014, burning about 2,239 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service217 CR 4860
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13350 BRIAR RD
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service960 JENNINGS LN
28 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1100 OLD RENO RD
27 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEPSON SALT
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service301 GILLEY LANE
29 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service995 W. WHITE DOVE
24 August 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service905 GREG STREET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Peden: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Trinity Division Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Tarrant County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peden in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2007Thunderstorm WindPeden$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2021HailPeden-Penny sized hail reported near FM 730 and FM1542 north of Azle.

Every storm recorded in Tarrant 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
Lake Forest0.8 miles20
Center Point1.3 miles20
Pelican Bay2.3 miles20
Eagle Acres2.4 miles20
Pecan Acres3.4 miles16
Azle4.0 miles20
Lakeview5.5 miles16
Castle Hill Estate6.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378847. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.