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Purdon, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dawson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76679. It stands on Hughes Branch. The Survey maps it on the Purdon quadrangle. It stands 397 feet above sea level.

Purdon within Navarro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

79 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Purdon between 2005 and 2019, burning about 691 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism5

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
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNAVARRO MILLS DAM FIRE
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 31 WEST
3 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use18 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSW3080

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Purdon in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2010HailPurdon$12,000Golf ball size hail was reported in Purdon.
March 2025HailPurdon$7,000The emergency manager relayed a picture of golf ball sized hail near Purdon (FM 55).
April 2008HailPurdon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Navarro 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
Silver City2.2 miles7
Navarro Mills3.5 miles7
Pursley4.4 miles7
Spring Hill5.0 miles7
Corbet5.8 miles9
Raleigh6.0 miles8
Dawson6.4 miles7
Dresden6.6 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.

Wikipedia article on PurdonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7260965The 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 1344635. 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.