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Shaufler, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sweetwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79556. It stands on Finn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sweetwater quadrangle.

Shaufler within Nolan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

88 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Shaufler between 2006 and 2020, burning about 3,432 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use19
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Debris and open burning9
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2013Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRR TRAMMELL FIRE
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNINE MILE FIRE
22 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service900 RUNNELS FIRE
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceI20
8 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service903 ROSCOE STREET FIRE
5 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service20244 FIRE
26 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution14 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAKE TRAMMELL
23 August 2019Natural25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLUDLING FIRE LAKE TRAMMAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nolan County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Shaufler: 4 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Strontium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Stevenson PropertySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Boothe MineStrontiumPast ProducerCelestite
Evans ProspectStrontiumOccurrenceCelestite
Hopkins ProspectStrontiumOccurrenceCelestite
Scott and Roy OccurrenceStrontiumOccurrenceCelestite
Somnerville OccurrenceStrontiumOccurrenceCelestite

Every working recorded in Nolan County

Storms near this place

10 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shaufler in 10 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 9 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindShaufler-Mesonet station reported a wind gust of 74 mph.
October 2023Thunderstorm WindShaufler-A Mesonet observation site reported a 67 mph wind gust.
March 2018HailShaufler-Law Enforcement reported hail, two inches in diameter, near Roscoe.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindShaufler-A 70 mph wind gust was measured at the Mesonet station 11 miles southwest of Sweetwater.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindShaufler-A wind gust of 58 mph was reported at a West Texas Mesonet site.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindShaufler-The Texas Tech West Texas Mesonet about 11 miles southwest of Sweetwater measured a 70 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindShaufler-The Texas Tech West Texas Mesonet site measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 65 mph, 11 miles southwest of Sweetwater.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindShaufler-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindShaufler-no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindShaufler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nolan 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
Avenger Village4.1 miles13
Sweetwater5.0 miles13
Roscoe6.1 miles9
Orient7.6 miles12
Champion10.1 miles8
Brownlee10.5 miles8
Maryneal11.5 miles12
Tesco12.1 miles14

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 Q122554643The 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 1379063. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.