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Proffitt, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Newcastle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76372. It stands on Hamby Branch. The Survey maps it on the Proffitt quadrangle.

Proffitt within Young County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

39 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Proffitt between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,167 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning6
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
29 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFISHER RANCH
18 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceED FURR (HELTON FIRE)
1 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEST EAST ROAD
7 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2010Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEDDLEMAN + 926
2 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service380 & PROFFITT
18 August 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2020147

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Young County

Storms near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Proffitt in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindProffitt$6,000Several trees were knocked down across the county.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindProffitt$3,000A collapsing thunderstorm produced a small downburst west of Newcastle near Hwy 380 and FM 578 that damaged trees, broke power poles, and blew a car off the road.
May 2012HailProffitt-Nickel sized hail was reported 6 miles west of Newcastle on FM 926.
May 1993HailProffitt-A brief tornado touchdown uprooted a few trees in open country.,
May 2000HailProffitt-no account filed
April 1998HailProffitt-no account filed
May 1998HailProffitt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Young 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
Proffitt Crossing2.8 miles8
Newcastle7.1 miles10
Belknap (historical)7.5 miles10
Padgett7.8 miles8
Murray9.4 miles8
True9.8 miles8
Olney13.9 miles8
Jean15.4 miles8

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 Q122592779The 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 1380398. 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.