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Scott, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Wills Point census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75169. It stands on Flat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cedarvale quadrangle.

Scott within Van Zandt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

115 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Scott between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,328 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Debris and open burning45
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2009Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2009-227
8 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2009-228
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHRIS
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2009Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2009-235
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY64 ACROSS FROM 33967
10 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service47
9 August 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1329 VZ 2623

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Zandt County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scott in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 3 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
March 2021HailScott$5,000no account filed
February 2017HailScott$3,000There were 10 vehicles on I-20 that received windshield damage due to ping pong ball size hail.
January 2010HailScott-Half-dollar size hail fell along Interstate 20 at exit 519 west of the city of Canton.

Every storm recorded in Van Zandt 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
Cana1.4 miles10
Watkins3.8 miles10
High4.1 miles13
Myrtle Springs5.0 miles13
Wallace5.4 miles13
Wise5.6 miles10
Whitton7.9 miles13
Four Mile Prairie7.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379040. 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.