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Perry, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Perry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76682. The Survey maps it on the Riesel quadrangle. It stands 473 feet above sea level.

Perry within Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

37 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Perry between 2005 and 2018, burning about 339 acres in total. 3 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
1 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Natural25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSUNSET ROAD FIRE
5 July 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2008Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 July 2008Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIONS PARK
11 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use40 acresTexas A & M Forest Service123 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perry in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
March 1999Thunderstorm WindPerry$2,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed outbuildings.
April 2011HailPerry-Quarter size hail fell 1 mile south of Riesel on Highway 6.
September 2010Tornado (EF0)Perry-A storm chaser caught a brief tornado approximately two miles south of Riesel. The tornado was on the ground as it crossed HWY 6, but otherwise the tornado remained over open land and did not cause any damage.
February 1998HailPerry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Falls 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
Rocky Hill5.2 miles8
Otto6.0 miles6
McClanahan6.2 miles7
Guda7.4 miles14
Marlin7.8 miles8
Satin7.9 miles14
Golinda9.3 miles15
Triangle10.2 miles8

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 PerryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7169701The 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 1365073. 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.