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Scranton, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cisco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76437. The Survey maps it on the Scranton quadrangle.

Scranton within Eastland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

36 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Scranton between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,024 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/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2

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
5 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 880 SOUTH AEP/GAS PLANT
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service136 FIRE
3 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 153
27 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 137
2 August 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1864 CALLAHAN
9 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceROYCE
9 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEDBETTER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eastland County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Scranton: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ramsey-1CopperOccurrence1973

Every working recorded in Eastland County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scranton in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2002Flash FloodScranton$2,000FM 1864 closed due to high water.
November 2024Flash FloodScranton-Southwest of Cisco, CR 145 and CR 187 were closed due to flooding.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindScranton-no account filed
April 1993HailScranton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Eastland 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
Nimrod3.7 miles9
Mitchell3.7 miles9
Dothan5.8 miles8
Pleasant Hill8.2 miles13
Sabanno8.3 miles8
Cisco8.9 miles13
Romney9.0 miles13
Mountain Top9.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379043. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.