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Silver City, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dawson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75102. The Survey maps it on the Dawson quadrangle.

Silver City within Navarro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

121 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Silver City between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,068 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking2
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
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNAVARRO MILLS DAM FIRE
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1111870
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 31 WEST
3 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use18 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver City in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death and 4 injuries. 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
October 1998Tornado (F2)Silver City1 killed, 4 hurt, $100,000A 33 year old man was killed when a tornado struck his mobile home.
August 2015Flash FloodSilver City$10,000Water covered the road at Highway 31 west of Corsicana. Also, newspapers reported several accidents along Highway 31.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSilver City$6,000The Navarro County Emergency Manager reported a large metal roof was blown off of a barn just north of Silver City.
September 2023HailSilver City-Reported via mPing.
July 2013Heavy RainSilver City-Heavy rain fell across much of Navarro County, including one report of 3 inches in a time span of 30 minutes. This occurred near the intersection of State Highway 31 and Farm to Market Road 55.
April 2017HailSilver City-no account filed
June 1998HailSilver City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Navarro 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
Purdon2.2 miles7
Navarro Mills2.5 miles7
Raleigh3.9 miles8
Dresden4.4 miles8
Spring Hill4.5 miles7
Drane5.6 miles9
Corbet5.9 miles9
Brushie Prairie6.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379077. 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.