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Silver City, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Dodd City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75449. The Survey maps it on the Ladonia quadrangle.

Silver City within Fannin 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

110 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Silver City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,579 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3410 FIRE
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONTROL BURN HWY 34
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
26 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
22 September 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE/POS.STRUCTURES
12 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3454
11 September 2009Smoking15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE( CR 3025 OFF OF FM 2077)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver City in 1 storm report in 2018: 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
April 2018HailSilver City-Amateur radio reported nickel sized hail off of FM 2990.

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Bartley Woods1.5 miles6
Oak Ridge1.5 miles8
Flag Springs2.1 miles6
Flat Prairie (historical)2.1 miles8
Bug Tussle3.0 miles8
Hail3.2 miles6
Bagby4.2 miles8
Shady Grove4.5 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382761. 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.