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Spurger, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Spurger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75979. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spurger quadrangle. It stands 164 feet above sea level.

Spurger within Tyler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Spurger between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,017 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 18 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 burning83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural17
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 203
9 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2013Natural58 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9173
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,509 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 683
3 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJERUK
29 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSEGREST
28 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOOKS
28 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tyler County

Storms near this place

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spurger in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 10 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
December 2001Thunderstorm WindSpurger$20,000no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F2)Spurger$20,000no account filed
December 2014Tornado (EF1)Spurger$15,000A tornado touched down near FM highway 1013 west of Spurger and snapped the tops of several pine trees off. When the tornado moved to County Road 4394 two homes received minor damage to the roofs with some shingles taken off. Several trees were snapped near the base of them and a couple of sheds and barns had some metal roofing material peeled off. The tornado caused more damage to two more homes on County Road 4375 where roofing shingles or tin were partially blown off the homes, carports, and garages. More trees along this road were also snapped at the base facing north. The tornado dissipated shortly thereafter. This same storm produced the tornado in Jasper County in the Rock Hill Community.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSpurger$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
November 1996Thunderstorm WindSpurger$10,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSpurger$5,000no account filed
March 2001Thunderstorm WindSpurger$5,000no account filed
November 2001Thunderstorm WindSpurger$5,000no account filed
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSpurger$3,000A tree was blown onto a house in Spurger.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindSpurger$2,000no account filed
April 2000Thunderstorm WindSpurger$2,000no account filed
May 2015Thunderstorm WindSpurger$1,000A tree was blown down across Highway 92 in Spurger.
February 2024HailSpurger-The hail report was received through social media.
February 2024HailSpurger-Multiple photos of hail up to golf balls was received through social media.
May 2024Flash FloodSpurger-Flooding was reported from Spurger to Town Bluff on FM 92 and several county roads. Flooding resulted in the temporary closing of FM 92.
May 2024Flash FloodSpurger-Several roads were reported flooded with some closed from Spurger to Woodville to Warren.
February 2019HailSpurger-A couple of reports of golf ball sized hail was reported in Spurger.
June 2014HailSpurger-KBMT relayed a report of quarter size hail in the Spurger area via Facebook.
September 2013Heavy RainSpurger-Heavy rain around the Spurger area produced minor flooding of roadways. The radar estimated 2 to 9 inches of rain in the area.
May 2017HailSpurger-no account filed
June 2007HailSpurger-no account filed
June 2001HailSpurger-no account filed
November 2001HailSpurger-no account filed
January 1998HailSpurger-no account filed
May 1996HailSpurger-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tyler 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
Oldham4.5 miles12
Town Bluff6.6 miles14
Fred8.0 miles12
Hillister10.9 miles13
Emille11.3 miles11
Hicksbaugh12.8 miles13
Warren13.4 miles13
Woodville13.8 miles12

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 SpurgerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7581559The 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 1369052. 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.