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Salmon, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Elkhart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75839. The Survey maps it on the Percilla quadrangle. It stands 509 feet above sea level.

Salmon within Anderson 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

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Salmon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,294 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 3 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 burning85
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural11
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHAPMAN
7 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceELK90086
30 September 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENEKE
3 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePRASATIK
3 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1817 GRASS FIRE
3 September 1998Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDUDDLESTEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salmon in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindSalmon$25,000A home on HWY 287 south of Elkhart and about 10 miles north of Grapeland had its front porch ripped off and half of its roof torn off. The roof was laying about a 100 yards from the house. Water damage occurred inside the house as a result.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindSalmon$2,000Emergency management reported two storage buildings blown down near the intersection of CR 181 and CR 179. Trees were also blown down in the same location.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindSalmon-Emergency management reported a large tree down near the intersection of County Road 184 and Highway 287 in the city of Elkhart, TX.
April 2019HailSalmon-A public report indicated quarter-size hail approximately 5 miles southeast of the city of Elkhart, TX.
November 2010HailSalmon-Quarter size hail was reported 4 miles south of Elkhart on HWY 287.

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Slocum4.5 miles11
Mound City4.9 miles10
Elkhart5.6 miles10
Alderbranch8.3 miles11
Cronin9.5 miles10
Crystal Lake11.5 miles10
Deanwright11.5 miles10
Lakeview Assembly11.6 miles10

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 SalmonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28030582The 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 1367369. 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.