BlockBefore

Scroggins, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Winnsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75480. It stands on Bullard Branch. The Survey maps it on the Newsome quadrangle. It stands 361 feet above sea level.

Scroggins within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

253 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of Scroggins between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,098 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 16 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 burning157
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use22
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural14
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3522
9 September 2003Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 232
7 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6227
7 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 134
6 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE ON 4460
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4360 / GAS PLANT
6 September 2010Natural15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 163
4 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11 WEST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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 Scroggins: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. 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
New Hope Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scroggins in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2019Tornado (EF2)Scroggins$100,000This is a continuation of the Wood County EF-2 tornado. This tornado crossed Highway 115 and County Road 4426 in the Scroggins community, where numerous trees were snapped or uprooted, a tree fell through a mobile home, and another tree had fallen on a home. The tornado continued northeast crossing County Road 4410 where a few trees were snapped or uprooted, and a metal outbuilding suffered minor damage. The tornado then moved across Farm to Market Road 1519 and along the west side of Lake Bob Sandlin where a few additional trees were snapped or uprooted, before lifting along the lake just off of County Road 4397. Throughout its path across extreme Southeast Franklin County, the maximum estimated winds had weakened to near 105 mph.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindScroggins$5,000Trees were blown onto a county road between Scroggins and Clearwater.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindScroggins-Trees downed near Scroggins.
April 2016HailScroggins-A photo was posted on the KLTV Facebook page of ping pong ball size hail that fell in the Scroggins community.
October 1995HailScroggins-Trees were blown down by high winds.
May 2003HailScroggins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Clearwater2.0 miles13
New Hope3.2 miles9
Rock Springs3.8 miles13
Cypress6.6 miles9
Macon8.5 miles9
Purley9.1 miles9
Majors9.1 miles9
Hopewell10.1 miles9

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 ScrogginsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7439272The 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 1379044. 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.