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Pone, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Laneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75667. It stands on Ashby Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gum Springs quadrangle. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Pone within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

201 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Pone between 1992 and 2020, burning about 852 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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 burning122
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Equipment and vehicle use16
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4
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
9 September 2005Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 232
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use14 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 527
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 492
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 September 1993Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6231
30 September 2015Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHARLES WASSON
29 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pone in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
April 2018LightningPone$20,000Lightning struck a tank battery on County Road 401 near FM 839, catching it on fire.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindPone-Tree downed at 10500 FM Road 839 South near County Road 458.
April 2020HailPone-Golfball size hail fell on FM 839 near the Compton community.
April 2020HailPone-Ping pong ball size hail fell several miles southwest of Henderson.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindPone-Tree tops were blown out southwest of Henderson.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindPone-A few large trees were downed near FM. 839.

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
Good Springs1.8 miles13
McKnight2.6 miles13
Gum Springs3.7 miles13
Hickey3.9 miles13
Pleasant Grove3.9 miles13
Big Springs4.8 miles13
Stringtown5.6 miles13
Laneville5.8 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q131171273The 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 1378895. 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.