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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Purdon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mexia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
79 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 39 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NAVARRO MILLS DAM FIRE |
| 3 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 31 WEST |
| 3 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 18 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SW3080 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2010 | Hail | Purdon | $12,000 | Golf ball size hail was reported in Purdon. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Purdon | $7,000 | The emergency manager relayed a picture of golf ball sized hail near Purdon (FM 55). |
| April 2008 | Hail | Purdon | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver City | 2.2 miles | 7 | |
| Navarro Mills | 3.5 miles | 7 | |
| Pursley | 4.4 miles | 7 | |
| Spring Hill | 5.0 miles | 7 | |
| Corbet | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Raleigh | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Dawson | 6.4 miles | 7 | |
| Dresden | 6.6 miles | 8 |
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 Purdon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7260965 | The 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.



