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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.

Silver within Coke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

17 since 2004

Regional 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 use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
21 September 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSILVER 092111
31 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service208 COUNTY LINE
25 August 2019Natural249 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTABLE TOP
21 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use300 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2,120 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMALONE FIRE
21 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJRU NORTH STATION 3
20 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution325 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPADE 2016 01

Every fire recorded in Coke County

Storms near this place

13 since 2004

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2004Thunderstorm WindSilver$10,000Several miles of power lines were blown down in northwestern portions of Coke county.
May 2024Tornado (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 2024HailSilver-Public reported lime size hail in Silver.
February 2020HailSilver-The public reported nickle size hail 3 miles south of Silver.
March 2018HailSilver-A storm chaser reported half dollar size hail on State Highway 208 near Silver.
August 2018Flash FloodSilver-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 2016Thunderstorm WindSilver-A member of the public estimated a thunderstorm wind gust in excess of 60 mph.
May 2015Tornado (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 2017HailSilver-no account filed
May 2016HailSilver-no account filed
April 2014HailSilver-no account filed
July 2008HailSilver-no account filed
May 2005HailSilver-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coke 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
Sanco9.4 miles9
Edith12.2 miles8
Robert Lee16.2 miles14
Fort Chadbourne21.4 miles13
Bronte24.3 miles15
Shawville25.4 miles15
Pecan Mott29.0 miles15
Tennyson30.9 miles15

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 SilverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7515757The 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.