Stout, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Winnsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75494. The Survey maps it on the Cartwright quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Cartwright quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
185 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Stout between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,317 acres in total. 1 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 | 112 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 37 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS & TRAILER FIRE |
| 9 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 65_09 |
| 7 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 346 |
| 5 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CAMPFIRE |
| 3 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9252013 |
| 24 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DEER FEEDER |
| 24 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 72 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stout in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Stout | - | County Road 4530 and FM Road 2869 closed due to flooding with high water reported on numerous other road surfaces across the northern and western portions of Wood County. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stout | - | A tree was blown down several miles south of Winnsboro. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Stout | - | A photo was posted to the KLTV Facebook page of 2 inch diameter hail that fell in the Stout community. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Point | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Cartwright | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Webster | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Oak Grove | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Ogburn | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Westbrook | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Winnsboro | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Pleasant Grove | 6.5 miles | 12 |
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 Stout | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q119873065 | The 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 1380930. 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.




