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Raywood, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Liberty-Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77582. The Survey maps it on the Daisetta quadrangle. It stands 62 feet above sea level.

Raywood within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Raywood between 1992 and 2013, burning about 90 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
17 September 2013Fireworks3.1 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8075
1 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service8062
8 March 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 March 2000Debris and open burning16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 250
25 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8023
14 March 2013Debris and open burning21 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8014
1 March 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8006
8 October 1992Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raywood in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2013: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1998Tornado (F1)Raywood$50,000Tornado destroyed large metal barn, 10 utility poles blown down (some snapped at base), minor damage to metal roofs of farm buildings, shingles blown off houses.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindRaywood$15,000Trees down between Raywood and Devers along US 90.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindRaywood$3,500There were trees downed in the Raywood area.
October 2003Tornado (F0)Raywood$1,000Tornado downed power lines across Highway 90.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindRaywood$1,000Sheriffs reported a tree downed in Raywood.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindRaywood$1,000Sheriffs reported a tree downed in Raywood.

Every storm recorded in Liberty 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
Moore Settlement1.6 miles13
Woodson2.1 miles13
Cow Island2.2 miles13
Rock Island2.4 miles13
Ames3.9 miles13
Devers4.4 miles13
Daisetta5.2 miles13
Tivett5.3 miles10

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 RaywoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7299412The 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 1344861. 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.