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Pert, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Frankston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75763. The Survey maps it on the Pert quadrangle. It stands 482 feet above sea level.

Pert within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Pert between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,116 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 8 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 burning84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural13
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Arson/incendiarism8
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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 2006Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 528
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 529
7 September 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 210
7 September 1996Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1993Smoking4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2005Arson/incendiarism128 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 216
30 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service441

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pert: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite, Halite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General. 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
Brushy Creek Salt DomeHalite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, GeneralOccurrenceAnhydrite, Calcite, Celestite, Halite
Concord Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1942

Every working recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pert in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 2011: 3 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011Thunderstorm WindPert$5,000Part of the roof of a manufactured home in Pert was removed. Another part of the roof was partially lifted off the home.
April 1996HailPert-no account filed
April 1994HailPert-no account filed
February 1993HailPert-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Todd City3.7 miles10
Mound Prairie3.8 miles13
Brushy Creek4.3 miles13
Elmwood4.5 miles13
Elmtown4.7 miles13
Neches4.7 miles11
Flint Hill6.8 miles11
Fosterville7.1 miles15

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 PertAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48851470The 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 1380343. 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.