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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Paris quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Honey Grove quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Honey Grove quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Selfs quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
92 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 38 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2216@2420 |
| 25 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BOIS-D-ARC BRIDGE |
| 20 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 85 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TITTUS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Hail | Selfs | $3,000 | Golf ball size hail was reported four miles north of Honey Grove. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Selfs | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Selfs | - | Quarter size hail was reported four miles north of Honey Grove. |
| April 2020 | Tornado (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 2020 | Tornado (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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Selfs | - | An amateur radio report estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 65 MPH in the city the Tigertown, TX. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Selfs | - | Flooding was reported over a roadway north of Honey Grove. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Selfs | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Point | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Sash | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Allens Chapel | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Carson | 4.9 miles | 6 | |
| Pettigrew | 6.4 miles | 6 | |
| Hudsonville | 6.8 miles | 6 | |
| Monkstown | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| Dotson | 7.2 miles | 6 |
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 Q122588381 | The 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.







