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Staley, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Point Blank census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77359. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Staley quadrangle.

Staley within San Jacinto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Staley between 1992 and 2018, burning about 517 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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 burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2006Debris and open burning28 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 197
30 September 2006Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceONALASKA FALLEN OAKS
5 August 2012Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8041
3 August 1998Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 299

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Jacinto County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Staley in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindStaley$2,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed four trees in the Waterwood subdivision.
April 2020HailStaley-Half dollar sized hail was reported.
May 2015Flash FloodStaley-Heavy rains caused flash flooding along FM 980 North along the Trinity River area.

Every storm recorded in San Jacinto 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
Waterwood3.1 miles12
Palmetto Park5.9 miles13
Darby Hill6.4 miles12
Oakhurst6.8 miles13
Pointblank7.4 miles13
Snow Hill9.6 miles13
Stephen Creek11.3 miles13
Willow Springs12.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380596. 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.