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Reeds Settlement, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Annona-Avery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75426. It stands on Little White Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the White Rock quadrangle.

Reeds Settlement within Red River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Reeds Settlement between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,718 acres in total. 11 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 burning37
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 2011Debris and open burning18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARTER#1
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARTER#2
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use250 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2004Debris and open burning80 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 189
21 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 449
20 September 1994Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2013Natural11 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6288
19 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 159

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red River County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Reeds Settlement: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Red River County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reeds Settlement in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 flash flood. 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
May 2009Flash FloodReeds Settlement-FM 1159 AT CR 3240 was closed from excessive heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Red River 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
Vessey2.4 miles10
Dilworth2.8 miles10
White Rock3.2 miles10
Caney3.3 miles10
Bryarly3.5 miles10
Madras4.3 miles10
Acworth5.0 miles9
Vandalia5.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122596280The 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 1380429. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.