BlockSingleton, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Anderson-Bedias census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77831. The Survey maps it on the Singleton quadrangle. It stands 338 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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 Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Singleton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
227 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Singleton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,287 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 4 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 burning | 146 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY30&CR260 |
| 8 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 14626 HWY 90 |
| 8 September 2013 | Natural | 11 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4035 |
| 8 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | RAILROAD ST ILLEGAL BURN |
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Singleton in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 2 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1995 | Hail | Singleton | $2,000 | Sheriff reported quarter-size hail and tree limbs downed onto roads in the Singleton area. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Singleton | $2,000 | Sheriffs reported quarter size hail and tree limbs downed onto roads in the Singleton area. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Singleton | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a tree on a road near the intersection of Highway 90 and FM 39. |
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q111248943 | 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 1368319. 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.