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Selfs, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Honey Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75446. The Survey maps it on the Selfs quadrangle.

Selfs within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Selfs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,222 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Natural2
Other causes1
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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2216@2420
25 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOIS-D-ARC BRIDGE
20 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2006Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use85 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTITTUS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Selfs in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2023HailSelfs$3,000Golf ball size hail was reported four miles north of Honey Grove.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSelfs$2,000no account filed
June 2023HailSelfs-Quarter size hail was reported four miles north of Honey Grove.
April 2020Tornado (EFU)Selfs-Spotter and chaser video showed a tornado in this area, and the location was estimated by RADAR. Damage was neither reported nor found in a ground survey, therefore the tornado was rated EF-Unknown.
April 2020Tornado (EFU)Selfs-Spotter and chaser video indicated a tornado in this area, and the location was estimated by RADAR. Damage was neither reported nor found by a ground survey, therefore the tornado was rated EF-Unknown.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSelfs-An amateur radio report estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 65 MPH in the city the Tigertown, TX.
June 1995HailSelfs-Flooding was reported over a roadway north of Honey Grove.
May 1995HailSelfs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Allen Point3.3 miles12
Sash3.8 miles12
Allens Chapel3.9 miles12
Carson4.9 miles6
Pettigrew6.4 miles6
Hudsonville6.8 miles6
Monkstown6.8 miles12
Dotson7.2 miles6

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.

Wikidata item Q122588381The 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 1382739. 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.