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Plantersville, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Navasota census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77363. It stands on Hurricane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Plantersville quadrangle. 464 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 361 feet above sea level.

Plantersville within Grimes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

349 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 349 fires within 5 miles of Plantersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,086 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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 burning247
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM1774
8 September 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 333
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 194
7 September 1993Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined136 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOGWOOD GULCH FIRE
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 191
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service5747 STONEHAM MEADOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grimes County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plantersville in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2016Flash FloodPlantersville$500,000Water rescues were occurring through the county. FM 362 at Beason Creek was closed due to flooding. Washington Street at Foster Street, Buckingham Lane at FM 379 and Courtney Street in the town of Navasota were all impassable and closed as they were inundated with nearly two feet of water.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindPlantersville$30,000Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed two barns near Plantersville.
May 2019LightningPlantersville$15,000A lightning strike caused a structural fire.
October 2003Thunderstorm WindPlantersville$6,000Winds toppled two trees onto mobile homes.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindPlantersville$5,000Numerous large branches blown down.
April 1997HailPlantersville$5,000no account filed
April 2020HailPlantersville$4,000Lime to hen egg sized hail damaged an antenna and left small dings on a car in Plantersville.
July 2002Flash FloodPlantersville$3,000High water at FM 1774 at CR 209 near Plantersville.
August 2020HailPlantersville-Quarter sized hail was reported.
March 2018HailPlantersville-Pea to nickel sized hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Grimes 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
Pinebrook1.8 miles10
Stoneham2.7 miles10
Blackberry4.5 miles11
Todd4.6 miles11
Yarboro5.0 miles10
Todd Mission5.2 miles11
Whitehall6.3 miles10
Lynn Grove9.6 miles10

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 PlantersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4364481The 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 1344169. 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.