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Selman City, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Price-Turnertown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75689. The Survey maps it on the Price quadrangle. It stands 407 feet above sea level.

Selman City within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

439 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 439 fires within 5 miles of Selman City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,682 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 18 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 burning171
Missing data/not specified/undetermined138
Power generation/transmission/distribution52
Equipment and vehicle use40
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural8
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 September 2013Fireworks2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6308
9 September 2011Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 511
9 September 1997Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7125
8 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6291
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined390 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePRICE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Selman City in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2023HailSelman City-Golfball size hail fell in the Selman City community.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindSelman City-A storage building was blown to the side of the roadway on Highway 64 near the intersection of Highway 42 in the Turnertown community.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSelman City-Trees and power lines were blown down on Highway 42 between Highway 323 and Highway 64.

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
Turnertown0.6 miles13
Old London2.7 miles13
London3.0 miles13
Joinerville3.3 miles13
New London3.5 miles13
Price4.0 miles13
Friars4.2 miles13
Stringtown5.9 miles13

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 Selman CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7448744The 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 1377180. 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.