BlockPumphrey, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Winters census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79567. The Survey maps it on the Wingate quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS Sweetwater quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Wingate quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sweetwater quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Pumphrey between 2007 and 2016, burning about 112 acres in total. None 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 burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD 191 |
| 29 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WINGATE FIRE |
| 26 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BELEW FIRE |
| 25 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 153 FIRE, EAST OF WINGATE |
| 24 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COLBURN SOUTH OF DRASCO |
| 26 June 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WHEAT FIELD |
| 2 June 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 301 ARSON FIRE |
| 15 June 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PRUITT GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pumphrey in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2017: 3 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Hail | Pumphrey | - | Quarter size hail was reported by a storm chaser. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Pumphrey | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Pumphrey | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378916. 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.