Silver, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Robert Lee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76945. It stands on Silver Peak. The Survey maps it on the Silver quadrangle. It stands 2,100 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Silver quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Sweetwater quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Silver between 2004 and 2019, burning about 25,202 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2011 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SILVER 092111 |
| 31 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 208 COUNTY LINE |
| 25 August 2019 | Natural | 249 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TABLE TOP |
| 21 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2,120 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MALONE FIRE |
| 21 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JRU NORTH STATION 3 |
| 20 July 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 325 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SPADE 2016 01 |
Storms near this place
13 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver in 13 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 8 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver | $10,000 | Several miles of power lines were blown down in northwestern portions of Coke county. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF2) | Silver | - | The Silver Tornado damaged a private property just north of FM2029.|The roof of a ranch house was completely ripped off but the walls |remained standing. The tornado also completely destroyed a metal |barn and threw building material a considerable distance away from|the house and barn. The estimated peak wind of the tornado was 125 mph. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Silver | - | Public reported lime size hail in Silver. |
| February 2020 | Hail | Silver | - | The public reported nickle size hail 3 miles south of Silver. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Silver | - | A storm chaser reported half dollar size hail on State Highway 208 near Silver. |
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Silver | - | Heavy rain flooded county and ranch roads about 2 miles southwest of Silver located in northwest Coke County. A rainfall report of five inches was reported from a local resident. |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver | - | A member of the public estimated a thunderstorm wind gust in excess of 60 mph. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Silver | - | An observer had witnessed the tornado touching the ground multiple times about 4 miles southwest of Silver. This tornado path length and beginning time were estimated using radar data and eyewitness accounts. The path width was also estimated. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Silver | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Silver | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Silver | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Silver | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Silver | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanco | 9.4 miles | 9 | |
| Edith | 12.2 miles | 8 | |
| Robert Lee | 16.2 miles | 14 | |
| Fort Chadbourne | 21.4 miles | 13 | |
| Bronte | 24.3 miles | 15 | |
| Shawville | 25.4 miles | 15 | |
| Pecan Mott | 29.0 miles | 15 | |
| Tennyson | 30.9 miles | 15 |
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 Silver | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7515757 | The 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 1347126. 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.



