BlockRound Prairie, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kerens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75144. It stands on Gas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Goodlow Park quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Goodlow Park quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
146 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Round Prairie between 2005 and 2020, burning about 912 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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 | 62 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 42 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 14-090914 |
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SE CR 3110 @ 3150 |
| 8 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 14-11982 |
| 8 September 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1411959 |
| 8 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SE CR 3110@ 3150 |
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1012283 |
| 5 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 91 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 100 |
| 4 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1012237 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Round Prairie in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2016 | Tornado (EF1) | Round Prairie | $70,000 | A National Weather Service survey crew found evidence of a relatively brief QLCS tornado over southeastern Navarro County. The tornado first occurred near US 287, on the north side of Richland Chambers Reservior. Near the beginning point of this tornado, several power poles were broken. The tornado then moved northeast, damaging two manufactured homes. |
| March 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Round Prairie | $5,000 | Emergency management reported 10 power poles snapped and trees down near Hwy 287 at FM 309. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Round Prairie | $5,000 | Golfball-size hail was reported at Highway 309 about four miles north of Highway 287. |
| October 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Round Prairie | - | A waterspout was observed over Richland Chambers Lake between the FM 2859 bridge and Hwy 287. It was reported the waterspout may have started as a tornado on the west shore of the lake, but this could be not confirmed and no damage was reported. |
| March 2016 | Flash Flood | Round Prairie | - | Emergency management reported water over Hwy 287 near the FM 309 intersection. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round House (historical) | 1.6 miles | 10 | |
| Rural Shade | 2.3 miles | 10 | |
| Goodlow Park | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Goodnight | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Samaria | 6.4 miles | 10 | |
| Eureka | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Kerens | 7.2 miles | 10 | |
| Elm Flat | 7.3 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378990. 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.