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Sharp, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Davilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76518. The Survey maps it on the Sharp quadrangle.

Sharp within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

61 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Sharp between 2006 and 2020, burning about 564 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use24
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREKINDLE CAMERON FIRE
29 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOTTON BALE ON FIRE
8 August 2009Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
27 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
26 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePASTURE FIRE
26 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePASTURE FIRE N FM 486

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sharp in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindSharp-A public report indicated trees down along County Road 412 near the city of San Gabriel, TX.

Every storm recorded in Milam 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
The Crossroads1.3 miles14
Tracy3.2 miles15
Cummins Crossing3.6 miles17
San Gabriel4.5 miles14
Liberty Hill5.4 miles14
Corinth6.4 miles17
Davilla6.7 miles14
Val Verde7.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1368061. 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.