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Post Oak, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Blossom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75436. The Survey maps it on the Detroit quadrangle.

Post Oak within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

197 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of Post Oak between 1996 and 2020, burning about 2,609 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 9 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 burning123
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use19
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2

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 ServiceLINDEN - 349
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6181
6 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 September 2012Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6219
29 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND/GRASS FIRE
28 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARPENTER RANCH
27 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6158
27 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service5TH NW FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Post Oak in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024HailPost Oak$2,000Golf ball sized hail was reported on CR 45800 northeast of Blossom.
April 1995HailPost Oak-no account filed

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
Walnut Ridge2.6 miles8
Blossom5.0 miles8
Faught5.4 miles8
Lone Star5.9 miles10
Novice6.0 miles10
Pin Hook6.5 miles9
Sun Valley6.6 miles8
Medill7.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380389. 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.