BlockPlaska, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lakeview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79245. The Survey maps it on the Plaska quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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 Plainview quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:62500
- 1976 USGS Memphis SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Plaska quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Plaska between 2007 and 2019, burning about 1,347 acres in total. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MALOY FIRE |
| 30 August 2011 | Natural | 1,000 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COSTER FIRE |
| 29 August 2007 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 2014 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 657 & CO. RD. P |
| 20 August 2019 | Natural | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HANKOCK |
| 15 June 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WANSLEY |
| 1 June 2009 | Natural | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MOLLOY & FOSTER |
| 12 May 2010 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDLEY FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plaska in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Flash Flood | Plaska | $1,000,000 | Numerous thunderstorms repeatedly trained over portions of the extreme southeastern Texas Panhandle causing widespread flash flooding across Hall County. Several roadways were either flooded or completely washed out. Farm to Market Road 2472 near Plaska was washed out. Additionally, Farm to Market Road 1041 near Texas State Highway 256 southwest of Memphis was reportedly washed out. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plaska | - | A NWS storm survey was conducted in eastern Hall County near Estelline. The survey found considerable damage to homes, metal structures, and other outbuildings and trees at several homesteads. This damage was along Texas State Highway 86 to the west of Estelline and at another homestead roughly seven miles south-southwest of Memphis. The damage was found to be in generally uniform direction from northeast to southwest or southeast to northwest and in a broadly divergent pattern indicative of severe straight line winds associated with microbursts. Also, several power poles were downed and center pivots overturned across eastern Hall 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1365384. 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.