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Sexton, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Milam census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75972. It stands on Bull Bay Creek. The Survey maps it on the Patroon South quadrangle.

Sexton within Sabine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Sexton between 1992 and 2018, burning about 722 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In Texasnot named
30 September 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2002Debris and open burning75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 198
11 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 699
11 September 2000Naturalunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasREEVES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sabine County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sexton in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
July 2024Tornado (EF1)Sexton-An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 110 mph touched down in extreme Northeastern Sabine County south of the East Hamilton community along the eastern shore of Toledo Bend Reservoir, before crossing an inlet area as a waterspout as it entered extreme Southeast Shelby County near the East Hamilton community. Areal satellite imagery and areal surveys confirmed that multiple trees were snapped and uprooted before the tornado entered Shelby County.
November 2022HailSexton-Ping pong ball size hail fell north of the Milam community along Highway 87.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindSexton-A tree was downed north of Hemphill, Texas.

Every storm recorded in Sabine 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
Isla5.3 miles14
Geneva5.9 miles10
Milam9.7 miles11
Rosevine10.4 miles10
Sabinetown15.4 miles14
Hemphill15.7 miles11
Bronson16.1 miles12
Strickland Crossing16.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382740. 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.