BlockPetty, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Tahoka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79373. The Survey maps it on the New Home quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS New Home quadrangle1:62500
- 1976 USGS New Home SW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS New Home quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Slaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Petty between 2006 and 2015, burning about 3,053 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 burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 July 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 179 & CR 18 |
| 22 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE N. FM 179 & 211 |
| 25 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | T-BAR RANCH FIRE |
| 1 April 2008 | Natural | 480 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 440 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 11 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CRP FIRE |
| 20 February 2010 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1317/1328 GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Petty in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petty | $60,000 | The Tahoka Fire Department reported 13 large transmission lines downed by strong winds near the intersection of Farm to Market Road 179 and US Highway 380. |
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petty | $1,000 | A utility company official reported multiple power poles snapped east of West Point. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Petty | - | A storm chaser reported half dollar size hail along Farm to Market Road 179 southwest of New Home. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Petty | - | Quarter size hail was reported at the intersection of US Highway 380 and Farm to Market Road 1328. No damage was reported. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Petty | - | A swath of hail up to quarter size fell west of Tahoka. Damage was not reported. |
| June 2012 | Flood | Petty | - | Broadcast media relayed a report of a farmer near West Point isolated on his farm by floodwaters of unknown depth. Young cotton crops were heavily damaged throughout the area with a few hundred acres likely washed out. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380350. 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.