Ragtown, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Shelbyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75973. The Survey maps it on the Patroon North quadrangle.

Ragtown within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1944 USGS Patroon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Patroon quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1984 USGS Patroon North quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Natchitoches quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2003 USGS Patroon North quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Ragtown between 1992 and 2018, burning about 533 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Natural	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
6 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	126D
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
3 September 1995	Debris and open burning	8.5 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	BRINSON
27 September 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	7.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	CATFISH
22 September 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	84 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	BOWEN
2 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 204
14 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	BRINSON
13 September 1997	Smoking	25 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	MYSTERY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ragtown in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Ragtown	$50,000	Trees and power lines were blown down in and around Ragtown.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Ragtown	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees along the shore of Toledo Bend Reservoir.
April 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Ragtown	-	An EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds around 105 mph touched down just west of Toledo Bend Reservoir in Eastern Shelby County Texas near Forest Service Road 126 and continued northeast crossing County Road 2789 and County Road 3184 just north of Forest Service Road 126A. The tornado continued east along Forest Service Road 126 before crossing Forest Service Road 132, and eventually over Toledo Bend Reservoir into Northwest Sabine Parish Louisiana. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted along the tornado's path across the Sabine National Forest before crossing Toledo Bend Reservoir.
April 2015	Hail	Ragtown	-	Hail was reported south southwest of Huxley, Texas.

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Goober Hill	2.5 miles	14
West Hamilton (historical)	2.8 miles	14
Dreka	3.5 miles	14
Alexanders Store	4.2 miles	14
Jordans Store	4.6 miles	14
East Hamilton	5.7 miles	14
Patroon	5.8 miles	14
Huxley	6.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382588. 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.