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Price, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Price-Turnertown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75654. It stands on Horton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Price quadrangle. It stands 354 feet above sea level.

Price 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

396 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 396 fires within 5 miles of Price between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,355 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 8 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 burning171
Missing data/not specified/undetermined114
Equipment and vehicle use46
Power generation/transmission/distribution40
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks2

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 September 2013Fireworks2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6308
9 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7125
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 492
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4620 FIRE
7 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6291

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Price: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Ball Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Reliance Clay Products PitBall ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Price in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 2015Tornado (EF2)Price$250,000National Weather Service Storm Survey Team determined that damage in Rusk County was consistent with that of a tornado. An EF2 tornado touched down approximately 9 miles west southwest of Henderson, Texas in Rusk County and traveled in a east northeast direction before lifting approximately 10 miles east northeast of Henderson, Texas. Numerous trees were snapped and or uprooted along its path. Several powerpoles were snapped as well. Several homes in and around Henderson suffered minor to moderate damage mostly from fallen trees.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindPrice$30,000A 8x14 storage building was destroyed and an 18 inch diameter tree was blown onto a house in the community of Price.
April 2024Flash FloodPrice-Highway 42 near County Road 468 flooded and impassable due to high water.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPrice-Multiple trees downed on FM Road 13 near the Price community.
March 2023HailPrice-Quarter size hail reported.
April 2023HailPrice-Quarter size hail fell in the Carlisle Price community.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindPrice-Trees were blown down on Highway 476.
May 2022FloodPrice-Flooding reported FM Road 13 near Price.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindPrice-Vehicle collided with a downed tree at the intersection of Highway 42 and County Road 468 with one minor injury reported.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindPrice-Trees were downed on Highway 42 near the intersection of County Road 468 in Southwest Rusk County.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindPrice-A tree was blown down across Highway 42.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindPrice-Trees were blown down and structural damage occurred at the Carlisle ISD in the community of Price.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPrice-Trees were downed on FM 13 about 2 miles east of Price.
January 2018Thunderstorm WindPrice-One tree was blown down.
April 2016Flash FloodPrice-Farm to Market Road 13 from 2.4 miles west of Highway 42 to 3 miles east of Farm to Market Road 856 was closed due to flooding.
April 2015Flash FloodPrice-Significant flash flooding was reported at the intersection of Hwy 42 and 13 west of Henderson, Texas.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Price-An EF0 tornado first touched down near the intersection of County Road 471 and 468 where a tree was snapped. The tornado continued southeast crossing CR. 468 where several trees were snapped on both sided of the road. Some of the trees fell across 468 and on the powerlines nearby. The tornado lifted as it crossed Hwy. 79, seven miles southwest of Henderson, Texas where 2 trees were snapped on the north side of Hwy. 79.
September 2007HailPrice-Hail fell in the community of Price.
May 2000HailPrice-no account filed
January 1996Thunderstorm WindPrice-no account filed

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
Stringtown2.4 miles13
Gum Springs3.7 miles13
Joinerville3.8 miles13
Turnertown3.9 miles13
Selman City4.0 miles13
Hickey4.6 miles13
Big Springs4.8 miles13
Good Springs5.6 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 PriceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7242552The 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 1344553. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.