Pennington, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Groveton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75856. The Survey maps it on the Pennington quadrangle.

Pennington within Trinity County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Pennington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Pennington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,032 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 7 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	19
Natural	10
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 1993	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 1992	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 103
13 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	101 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011323
9 August 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 260
5 August 1998	Natural	35 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	DOZER
5 August 1998	Natural	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pennington in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2009: 2 tornado, 2 hail, 2 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	Tornado (EF1)	Pennington	$60,000	The tornado destroyed an outdoor shed, shifted a double wide trailer and flipped a pickup truck. The tornado also carried a small metal boat a distance of 300 yards across an open field. Numerous trees along a well defined track were either uprooted or snapped off close to the ground.
March 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Pennington	$25,000	Trees/power lines down in Pennington
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Pennington	$15,000	Trees down.
March 2000	Hail	Pennington	$10,000	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Pennington	$10,000	no account filed
April 1997	Tornado (F0)	Pennington	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trinity 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Friendship	3.5 miles	10
Friday	5.9 miles	10
Westville	8.6 miles	11
Nogalus	9.0 miles	11
Center Point	9.1 miles	11
Crecy	9.6 miles	10
Lacy	9.8 miles	11
Centerville	10.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382475. 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.