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Peeltown, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kaufman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75158. The Survey maps it on the Rosser quadrangle.

Peeltown within Kaufman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

126 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Peeltown between 1996 and 2019, burning about 1,464 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
Debris and open burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use14
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011-409
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011-404
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-398
5 September 2008Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution440 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-391
26 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2017Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4077

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peeltown in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 3 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 1999Thunderstorm WindPeeltown$25,000A mobile home, in the southwest part of the county, was destroyed by thunderstorm winds.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindPeeltown$500Thunderstorm winds blew down trees.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindPeeltown-A large oak tree was knocked down along FM 148 near Lively and Peeltown.
March 2023HailPeeltown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kaufman 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
Lively3.1 miles10
Styx4.0 miles9
Cottonwood4.4 miles9
Grays Prairie4.9 miles10
Stubbs5.0 miles10
Rosser5.5 miles9
Tolosa7.8 miles12
Scurry7.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378848. 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.