Polar, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Jayton South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79549. The Survey maps it on the Polar quadrangle.

Polar within Kent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1969 USGS Polar quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Poplar quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Aspermont quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Polar between 2006 and 2018, burning about 1,267 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	1
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
24 July 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	380 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	POLAR- KENT COUNTY
4 May 2018	Natural	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 1142 KENT COUNTY
18 May 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JUSTICEBURG EAST FIRE
14 April 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1142
17 January 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	500 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COVERED S RANCH
14 January 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 1142

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Polar in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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
April 2008	Hail	Polar	-	The Garza County Constable and a Texas Park Ranger reported half dollar size hail at Lake Alan Henry.

Every storm recorded in Kent 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Clairemont	16.1 miles	6
Harmony	22.6 miles	6
Jayton	27.1 miles	6
Girard	29.3 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1889932. 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.