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Stockard, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cedar Creek Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75751. It stands on Briar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stockard quadrangle. It stands 433 feet above sea level.

Stockard within Henderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Stockard between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,426 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2014Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service0909141 GRASS & HAY BALES FIRE
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGAS PLANT FIRE 2
5 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service905093
5 September 2008Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service0923171 BRUSH PILE
21 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 2858 - EUSTACE
2 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2918

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockard in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
April 2017Tornado (EF2)Stockard5 hurt, $300,000This tornado developed northeast of Log Cabin with the first|visible damage associated to snapped trees. As the tornado moved |north/northeast, a tall communications tower was snapped in half. |Eventually, the tornado crossed paths with several homes which led|to complete destruction and many debarked trees. The damage path |continued to the northeast, eventually stopping near the|intersection of Van Zandt County Road 2903 and FM 1256. As this|tornado occluded and dissipated, the next tornado began in the next|few minutes.
July 2020FloodStockard$100,000Several roads were closed or experienced flooding due to heavy rain across parts of Henderson County. Some areas received 4-6 inches of rain in less than 6 hours. Parts of Highways 175 and 19 near Athens experienced flooding problems. Also mentioned was HCRs 3918, 3910, and 3907. Two bridges were damaged due to flooding on HCRs 1500 and 1507 near Crescent Heights.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindStockard-Large trees were split and uprooted along FM 2709, east of FM 2803. This location is a few miles east of Eustace.

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
Pickens2.6 miles13
Eustace3.2 miles14
Log Cabin5.2 miles11
Caney City5.4 miles11
Big Rock5.6 miles13
Payne Springs5.7 miles14
Bethel6.0 miles13
Crescent Heights6.5 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 StockardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076589The 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 1379117. 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.