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Pin Hook, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Blossom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75436. It stands on Nolan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Woodland quadrangle.

Pin Hook within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

160 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Pin Hook between 1993 and 2019, burning about 3,019 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 10 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 burning78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
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
9 September 2013Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6306
4 September 2012Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6219
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 646
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
24 September 2013Natural7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6341
2 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVERLON VAUGHN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pin Hook in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 1 hail, 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
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Pin Hook$2,000A short tornado damage path was found south of Pinhook by local law enforcement. Small tree limbs and light tin metal damage was observed. This path location is estimated based on reports. Maximum estimated winds were 70 mph.
April 2017HailPin Hook-Amateur radio reported golf ball sized hail approximately 16 miles northeast of Paris, TX.

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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
Faulkner3.6 miles9
Novice3.8 miles10
Lone Star4.0 miles10
Medill4.9 miles10
Slate Shoals5.6 miles10
Walnut Ridge6.1 miles8
Post Oak6.5 miles8
Faught7.3 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 Pin HookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7194747The 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 1380356. 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.