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Pruett, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Linden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75657. The Survey maps it on the Lanier quadrangle.

Pruett within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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

173 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Pruett between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,038 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 15 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 burning102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use9
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural4
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6179
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 348
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6174
7 September 2000Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 379
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 343
5 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 182

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Pruett: 11 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Stone. 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
Knight-Field DepositIron, StoneOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite, Siderite
Bear CreekIronOccurrence
Bear Creek DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite
DuncanIronOccurrence
Duncan DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite
Hagerty DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite
HarrisIronOccurrence
Harris DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite
Jurnigan DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite
Knight-FieldIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pruett in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
February 2020Flash FloodPruett-County Road 1640 was closed due to flooding.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindPruett-Trees down on County Road 1619 near the Cass/Marion County line.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindPruett-A tree was downed at the intersection of County Roads 1619 and 1642.

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Lanier3.1 miles11
Fairview3.9 miles11
Liberty4.8 miles11
Bear Creek5.6 miles11
Caves Spring5.6 miles11
Sheffield6.3 miles11
Evans6.5 miles11
Kildare6.8 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 PruettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q125154947The 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 1388198. 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.