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Pottsville, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hamilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76531. It stands on Baptist Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pottsville quadrangle. It stands 1,322 feet above sea level.

Pottsville within Hamilton 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

80 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Pottsville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 4,017 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning32
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2009Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePARTIN
4 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR623
26 September 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTOM MOORE
17 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJERPME PIETZSCHE
16 September 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePUFF
1 September 2006Smoking10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 622

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pottsville in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1995Thunderstorm WindPottsville$120,000Two mobile homes and a barn were destroyed, roofs were blown off, windows were blown out, and trees were uprooted by high winds.
April 2011HailPottsville$25,000Golfball sized hail and 80 mph winds were reported in Pottsville.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPottsville$8,000Golfball sized hail and 80 mph winds were reported in Pottsville.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindPottsville$4,000Trees were down in Pottsville and the Fire Department measured a 63 mph wind gust.
May 2013HailPottsville$3,000Trained spotters reported golf ball sized hail in Pottsville.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindPottsville$2,000An Amateur Radio operator estimated 60 mph winds in Pottsboro.
May 2024Flash FloodPottsville-Emergency management reported that several county roads including 531, 612, 614, 615, 631, and 639, as well as a portion of US Hwy 84 were closed due to flooding.
April 2023HailPottsville-A social media report indicated quarter sized hail about 13 miles southeast of Gustine, or 5 miles west of Pottsville, TX.
April 2022HailPottsville-Amateur radio reported ping pong ball sized hail in Pottsville, TX.
June 2014HailPottsville-Quarter sized hail was reported between Hamilton and Pottsboro.
May 2013FloodPottsville-Hamilton County Sheriff's office reported several low water crossings were barricaded in and around the city of Hamilton.
August 2005Flash FloodPottsville-FM 1702 from Indian Gap to the Comanche county line closed due to high water over the roadway.
August 2001Flash FloodPottsville-Cowhouse Creek was out of its banks at Pottsville. Pottsville had 5.5 inches of rain during the early morning.
June 1997Flash FloodPottsville-Farm-to-Market Road 218 was reported flooded.
May 1995HailPottsville-Two mobile homes and a barn were destroyed, roofs were blown off, windows were blown out, and trees were uprooted by high winds.
April 2004HailPottsville-no account filed
June 2004HailPottsville-no account filed
January 2002HailPottsville-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindPottsville-no account filed
June 1996HailPottsville-no account filed
March 1995HailPottsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Springdale4.2 miles13
Indian Gap4.7 miles13
Shive6.4 miles13
Midway6.7 miles13
Pecan Wells7.1 miles13
Schoolerville8.5 miles13
Gentrys Mill9.8 miles15
McGirk10.7 miles13

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 PottsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7235407The 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 1344442. 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.