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Stoneham, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Navasota census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77868. The Survey maps it on the Stoneham quadrangle.

Stoneham within Grimes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

313 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Stoneham between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,717 acres in total. 4 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 burning221
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 333
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 194
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
6 September 2017Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2928 CR 306
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined136 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOGWOOD GULCH FIRE
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 191
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service5747 STONEHAM MEADOW
4 September 2005Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 93

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grimes County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stoneham in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2009Thunderstorm WindStoneham$25,000A modular home was shifted off its foundation. Numerous trees were downed.
January 1998Thunderstorm WindStoneham$15,0002 barns destroyed and several trees uprooted by strong winds.
May 2000HailStoneham$10,000no account filed
April 1996HailStoneham$10,000no account filed
June 1997HailStoneham$5,000no account filed
January 1998HailStoneham$3,000no account filed
May 2015Flash FloodStoneham-Several roads closed due to heavy rainfall, especially in and around the Navasota area to the Richards area.

Every storm recorded in Grimes 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
Yarboro2.3 miles10
Plantersville2.7 miles11
Pinebrook3.0 miles10
Whitehall4.2 miles10
Blackberry4.9 miles11
Todd6.4 miles11
Todd Mission7.0 miles11
Lynn Grove7.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379118. 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.