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Pursley, 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. The Survey maps it on the Purdon quadrangle.

Pursley 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

73 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Pursley between 2005 and 2019, burning about 342 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
7 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2012Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1212853
20 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSW 3150 GRASS FIRE
19 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE FM 1126
15 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRING RANGE
13 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePIPLINE55

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pursley in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
April 2022Thunderstorm WindPursley$2,000Tree damage was reported scattered across the southern portions of the county.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindPursley-Tree damage in the Pursely area was estimated at 50-60 MPH.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindPursley-The sheriff's department reported trees down along Highway 2090 near Pursley.
June 2011HailPursley-no account filed
April 1996HailPursley-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
Purdon4.4 miles7
Union High5.8 miles6
Richland6.1 miles7
Corbet6.1 miles9
Eldorado Center6.4 miles7
Silver City6.4 miles7
Currie6.5 miles7
Pickett7.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378920. 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.