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Satin, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Chilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76685. The Survey maps it on the Chilton quadrangle. It stands 400 feet above sea level.

Satin within Falls 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

23 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Satin between 2005 and 2020, burning about 131 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE - CHINA SPRING
5 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service540 RIVERVIEW RD
17 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN/A
26 July 2020Debris and open burning8.6 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEGRATE
4 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJJ FLEWELLEN ROAD FIRE
4 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID GRASS FIRE
19 June 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service527 HONEY LN.
15 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service428 LEVI PRKWY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Satin in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2013: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2013Thunderstorm WindSatin$1,000Multiple trees were blown down across the county.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindSatin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Falls 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
Guda0.8 miles14
North Prairie2.8 miles14
Golinda3.5 miles15
Rocky Hill4.4 miles8
Chilton4.9 miles14
Triangle5.0 miles8
Tomlinson Hill6.0 miles8
Mooreville6.5 miles15

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 SatinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7426213The 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 1367787. 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.