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Sheridan, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Garwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77475. The Survey maps it on the Sheridan quadrangle. 520 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

Sheridan within Colorado County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Sheridan between 2005 and 2015, burning about 22 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
14 June 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARGARET HINES
18 May 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRANCHO LAVACA
29 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
12 February 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 December 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 January 2011Debris and open burning14 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFISHER GF
14 January 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colorado County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheridan in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2011: 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 1999HailSheridan$100,000Numerous reports of baseball-sized hail between Sheridan and Columbus.
May 1997Tornado (F0)Sheridan$25,000Tornado blew down powerlines, temporary buildings, and 12" diameter trees
February 1998Thunderstorm WindSheridan$21,500Numerous trees blown down (one on a house). Barn destroyed.
April 2007Flash FloodSheridan$10,000Haines Road washed out with creek flooding in the area.
April 1996HailSheridan$10,000no account filed
May 2011HailSheridan$7,000Baseball size hail occurred near Sheridan.
May 1997HailSheridan$5,000no account filed
November 2000Funnel CloudSheridan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Colorado 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
Rock Island5.7 miles10
Gwinns Crossing (historical)11.1 miles10
New Bielau11.1 miles10
Oakland11.2 miles10
Altair12.7 miles10
Borden13.7 miles11
Helms14.0 miles10
Provident City14.7 miles8

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 SheridanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7494879The 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 1347028. 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.