BlockStamps, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Ore City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75645. The Survey maps it on the Coffeeville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 12 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.
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Coffeeville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
330 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 330 fires within 5 miles of Stamps between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,262 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 8 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 | 234 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 48 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 2003 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 231 |
| 7 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 17-0318 |
| 7 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSFIRE |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6176 |
| 7 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stamps in 5 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 3 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stamps | $25,000 | A large two-story shop house was destroyed by damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Stamps | - | Ping pong ball size hail fell several miles northeast of Gilmer. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Stamps | - | Quarter size hail fell several miles southwest of Ore City. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stamps | - | Trees and power lines were downed in the Southern and Eastern sections of Upshur County. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Stamps | - | Quarter size hail fell northeast of Gilmer. A 60 mph wind gust was also estimated by a storm spotter near this location as well. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379108. 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.