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Peerless, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the North Hopkins-Sulphur Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75482. The Survey maps it on the Cooper South quadrangle.

Peerless within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

18 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Peerless between 2001 and 2018, burning about 406 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
25 August 2006Natural35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 621
22 August 2001Debris and open burning80 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 4
10 August 2015Recreation and ceremony35 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6127
10 August 2011Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service286 SPUR 71
1 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6163
18 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use46 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOPKINS 13:17
18 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 July 2014Equipment and vehicle use29 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6152

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peerless in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 1993Thunderstorm WindPeerless$50,000A mobile home was destroyed by thunderstorm winds, and trees and powerlines were blown down.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindPeerless$5,000Emergency management reported a tree down and blocking the road just west of the community of Peerless along Highway 71. Additional trees were also knocked down in the area, usually isolated in nature, but did block some county roads.
January 1993Thunderstorm WindPeerless$5,000Power lines were downed.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPeerless$2,000A homeowner near Cooper Lake reported huge trees broke off and uprooted on their property. The tops of trees were carried quite a ways, and shingles were blown off the roof.
February 2010FloodPeerless$2,000A motorist got her vehicle stuck in high water on CR 4754 and the vehicle had to be removed by a wrecker.
May 2022HailPeerless-Law enforcement reported quarter sized hail near the intersection of FM 71 and CR 4749, about 3 miles west of Peerless, TX.
December 2015Flash FloodPeerless-Water was over FM 71 in the Peerless area.
December 2009FloodPeerless-FM 71 near the Delta/Hopkins County line and FM 69 near the Mahoney slab remained impassable due to heavy rainfall from the night before.
April 1995HailPeerless-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down, a metal roof was blown off a building, a feed store was destroyed, and signs were blown down by high winds.
May 1998HailPeerless-no account filed
May 1998HailPeerless-no account filed
May 1997HailPeerless-no account filed
March 1996HailPeerless-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindPeerless-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindPeerless-no account filed
June 1995HailPeerless-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Posey2.2 miles8
Deep Well Crossing (historical)3.1 miles8
Emblem3.6 miles9
North Hopkins4.4 miles9
Harpers Crossing (historical)4.4 miles8
Pleasant Grove4.6 miles8
Good Neighbor5.4 miles8
Addran5.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380340. 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.