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Stith, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hawley-Noodle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79536. The Survey maps it on the Stith quadrangle. It stands 1,801 feet above sea level.

Stith within Jones 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

41 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Stith between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,493 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 September 2015Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMILLER FIRE MERKEL
28 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMERIT FIRE
17 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 126 FIRE
4 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined406 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWIMBERLY FIRE
19 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMILLER
18 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 410 AT WELLS LANE TYE
14 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 415
10 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stith in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 10 hail, 2 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023HailStith-Trained spotter reported half dollar size hail from the intersection of County Road 416 and Wimberly Road.
June 2023HailStith-A Trained Spotter reported golf ball size hail 3 miles southwest of Stith.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindStith-A trained spotter reported thunderstorm winds knocked over a swing set. He estimated the winds at around 70 mph.
May 2016HailStith-An amateur radio operator reported golf ball size hail broke windows at a home.
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Stith-The tornado damaged roofs and broke the windows of a couple of residences, it destroyed barns, fencing, and a porch. A heavy steel granary bin was rolled about 250 yards. The twister ripped up numerous mesquite trees and killed a cow. A gooseneck trailer was thrown approx 100 yards at the intersection of County Road 433 and County Road 452. The tornado left a well defined path in both the plowed field and the unplowed fields.
April 2008Tornado (EF0)Stith-A storm chaser reported a brief tornado about 8 miles west-southwest of the town of Hawley.
May 2015HailStith-no account filed
May 2015HailStith-no account filed
May 2015HailStith-no account filed
May 2015HailStith-no account filed
April 2006HailStith-no account filed
April 2006HailStith-no account filed
March 1997HailStith-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jones 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
Hodges5.0 miles15
Noodle6.9 miles13
Truby6.9 miles12
Hawley8.2 miles15
North Abilene9.3 miles15
Anson14.7 miles11
Fort Phantom Hill (historical)15.1 miles12
Phantom Hill15.6 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.

Wikidata item Q126939801The 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 1379116. 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.