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Starrville, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Winona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75792. It stands on Starrville Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Starrville quadrangle. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Starrville within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

264 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Starrville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,807 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 11 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 burning132
Missing data/not specified/undetermined75
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural12
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMITH 15:15
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service18373 CR 3132
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2006Debris and open burning35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 575
29 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE WINONA I-20

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Starrville in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
February 2026Thunderstorm WindStarrville-Tree downed along FM Road 757.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindStarrville-Trees downed near the intersection of Highway 271 and Landry Lane near the Starrville community.
February 2020Flash FloodStarrville-High water over FM 1252 between Highway 370 to just west of Barber Road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindStarrville-Trees and power lines were blown down southeast of Winona.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindStarrville-A tree was downed along Hwy. 271 about 5 miles from Gladewater, Texas.
January 1998HailStarrville-Hail covered the roadways resulting in a car accident on I-20 and Hwy 271. No injuries.
January 1998HailStarrville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Smith 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
Midway0.7 miles15
Waters Bluff2.2 miles13
Winona3.0 miles15
Owentown4.8 miles15
Browning6.2 miles15
Douglas8.6 miles16
Sand Flat8.8 miles15
Shady Grove9.0 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 StarrvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076588The 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 1379110. 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.