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Rhonesboro, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Gilmer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75755. The Survey maps it on the Rhonesboro quadrangle. It stands 568 feet above sea level.

Rhonesboro within Upshur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

434 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 434 fires within 5 miles of Rhonesboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,308 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 19 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 burning248
Missing data/not specified/undetermined107
Arson/incendiarism19
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking4
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service595 N FM 2689 120316
5 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1002 COMMAND
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 49 COMMAND
4 September 1998Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIVE OAK
30 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 647

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upshur County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rhonesboro in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2003Tornado (F2)Rhonesboro$60,000A strong cyclic supercell tornado developed over Mineola, Texas while a strong tornado developed shortly there after and moved to the east northeast. Numerous Pine, Oak, and other species of trees were either snapped or pushed over along the entire tornado track. Power lines were taken down across many locations along the track as well. The only structure in the path of this tornado was a construction trailer which was rolled over several times east of Gilmer, Texas. This tornado moved into Upshur County from Wood County and continued into Harrison and Marion Counties of northeast Texas.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindRhonesboro-A tree was blown down on top of a vehicle in front of the Harmony Junior High School, trapping a person inside.
March 2018Thunderstorm WindRhonesboro-A tree was blown down on Rain Tree Lakes Circle west of the Harmony community.
March 2016Funnel CloudRhonesboro-Sheriff's Office and Broadcast Media reported seeing a funnel cloud in person and on line storm chaser feed near the Rhonesboro community.
April 2016Tornado (EF1)Rhonesboro-This is a continuation of the Wood County tornado. The EF-1 tornado with estimated winds between 95-105 mph continued moving northeast across a heavily wooded and rural areas of western Upshur County. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted, before the tornado finally lifted near Farm to Market Road 852 between Horse Road and Greyhound Road. The total path length of this tornado was 27.36 miles.
January 1995HailRhonesboro-High winds damaged the roof of the Harmony School.

Every storm recorded in Upshur 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
Rosewood3.2 miles13
Grice3.7 miles13
Shady Grove5.1 miles13
Kelsey5.1 miles13
Latch5.5 miles13
Enon6.0 miles13
Soules Chapel6.3 miles13
Summerfield6.5 miles13

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 RhonesboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988053The 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 1378957. 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.