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Sherry, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Clarksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75426. It stands on McCoy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clarksville quadrangle.

Sherry within Red River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

137 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Sherry between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,804 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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 burning85
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2

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
6 September 2018Debris and open burning27 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1305 FIRE 9/6
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution22 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMITH
30 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1995Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use6.8 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1355 GRASS FIRE 9/18

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red River County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sherry: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
UnknownLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Red River County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sherry in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2018: 2 flash flood, 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
March 2018Flash FloodSherry-Farm to Market Road 909 north of County Road 1487 was closed due to flooding.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSherry-Large tree limbs were blown down on FM 909 near Scatter Creek.
November 2015Flash FloodSherry-Intersection of FM 909 and FM1487 was closed south southwest of Clarksville, Texas.

Every storm recorded in Red River 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
McCoy2.6 miles8
Aikin Grove3.0 miles8
Lone Star3.1 miles8
Pine Branch4.3 miles8
Batesville4.5 miles8
Mabry4.9 miles8
Peters Prairie5.2 miles8
Clarksville5.3 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380531. 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.