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Salesville, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mineral Wells census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76067. The Survey maps it on the Whitt quadrangle.

Salesville within Palo Pinto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

139 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Salesville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,332 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 11 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 burning55
Equipment and vehicle use31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCOTT
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service281 N
21 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTURKEY CREEK
15 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service656 LEDBETTER
13 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAYES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palo Pinto County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salesville in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 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
October 2009Flash FloodSalesville$15,000A car was swept off the road at a low water crossing on Salesville Road that was covered with about 2.5 feet of water. The woman driver was rescued from the middle of the raging creek by a local resident. The road was barricaded after the incident. Local residents reported they had only seen the creek as high one other time.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindSalesville$5,000Trained spotters estimated 60 mph winds along Highway 281 in the northeast part of the county. Power flashes were also observed in the area. These winds appear to have occurred as the outflow from the storm began to surge out ahead of the storm.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSalesville$5,000Numerous trees and power lines blown down; trees blown down across Highway 281 North.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindSalesville$1,000A public report indicated wind damage to a steel framed metal building.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSalesville-A trained spotter reported trees down just north of Mineral Wells.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindSalesville-Small trees were snapped about 4 feet up the trunk approximately 3 miles west-northwest of Whitt. Several 4-6 diameter tree branches were also knocked down.
June 2006Flash FloodSalesville-Flooding was reported on Highway 281.
May 2005HailSalesville-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSalesville-no account filed
June 2004HailSalesville-no account filed
April 1996HailSalesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Palo Pinto 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
Peadenville0.9 miles18
Oran5.1 miles19
Wolters Village6.2 miles18
Mineral Wells7.3 miles18
Coronados Camp7.8 miles19
Graford8.6 miles19
Sturdivant10.2 miles18
Palo Pinto15.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1346175. 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.