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Proctor, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Gustine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76446. The Survey maps it on the Proctor quadrangle. 93 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,211 feet above sea level.

Proctor within Comanche County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

155 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Proctor between 2006 and 2019, burning about 1,201 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning78
Equipment and vehicle use40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
4 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 322 GRASS FIRE
23 September 2013Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONNER
22 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONNER
21 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRAIG
2 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSEARS FARMS
16 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHEEL SPARK 377
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6610 HWY 2318
13 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6810 HWY 2318

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Storms near this place

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Proctor in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 14 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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
September 2025Thunderstorm WindProctor$30,000A mobile home lost its roof and outbuildings were knocked down on CR 347, located southeast of Proctor.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindProctor$15,000A number of barns and sheds had roofs ripped off in the Edna Hill area.
March 2025HailProctor$11,000Reported via mPING south of Dublin.
October 2013HailProctor$5,000Half dollar sized hail was covering the ground in Proctor.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindProctor$3,000A 60 mph wind gust was estimated 2 miles north of Proctor.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindProctor-Large tree branches were broken on the west side of Lake Proctor.
April 2015Tornado (EF0)Proctor-Amateur radio operators and trained spotters observed a tornado, originally reported to be twelve miles north of Gustine. The tornado damage was noted by local emergency management to be just north of U.S. 377, on the northeast side of the city of Proctor. While the tornado occurred near the city, only tree damage was noted from the storm.
March 2013HailProctor-Penny sized hail was reported along Highway 377 near Proctor.
March 2013HailProctor-Amateur radio operators reported the hail grew to the size of Quarters in Proctor.
March 2013HailProctor-The Comanche County Emergency Manager reported golf ball sized hail at Lake Proctor.
October 2013HailProctor-Quarter sized hail was reported at Lake Proctor.
March 2010HailProctor-Penny size hail fell in the town of Proctor.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindProctor-Power lines were down in Proctor.
July 2007Flash FloodProctor-The intersection of CR 341 and CR 335 was barricaded due to high water.
June 1999Flash FloodProctor-Flooding was reported in Procter and other areas surrounding Proctor. The flooding was from thunderstorms.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindProctor-Trees were blown down by strong winds.
October 1993HailProctor-The last three entries were due to a separate thunderstorm that had moved south from Stephens and Eastland county. Damage in Deleon was estimated at over 2.5 million dollars.
April 2015HailProctor-no account filed
June 1999HailProctor-no account filed
April 1997HailProctor-no account filed
June 1997HailProctor-no account filed
May 1994HailProctor-no account filed
October 1993HailProctor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Comanche 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
Roch2.9 miles13
Hasse4.7 miles14
Comyn6.3 miles13
Downing6.9 miles12
Vandyke7.0 miles13
Gartman View8.1 miles13
Hazeldell9.0 miles14
Wilson9.4 miles14

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 ProctorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711264The 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 1344575. 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.