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Ridgeway, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cumby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75482. The Survey maps it on the Cumby quadrangle.

Ridgeway within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

71 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Ridgeway between 2001 and 2019, burning about 395 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
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 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALKER
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
30 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service313 CR 4741
26 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREIBER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ridgeway in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 2020Thunderstorm WindRidgeway$6,000A resident sent in a picture of a very large tree branch that broke off in high thunderstorm winds, causing scattered damage around the property including a metal fence and the roof of the home.
August 2017Flash FloodRidgeway-Hopkins County Sheriff's Department reported that FM 2653 N just north of Interstate 30 was closed due to high water.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindRidgeway-A social media report indicated large trees blown down on FM 2653 near Ridgeway, TX.
April 1996HailRidgeway-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Overland2.1 miles8
Branom2.7 miles9
Gafford4.1 miles8
Emblem4.6 miles9
Brashear4.7 miles8
Cumby4.8 miles9
Good Neighbor6.4 miles8
Pleasant Grove6.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1345205. 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.