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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.

Stout within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

185 since 1995

Regional 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 burning112
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Natural1

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 2012Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS & TRAILER FIRE
9 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service65_09
7 September 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 346
5 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAMPFIRE
3 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9252013
24 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEER FEEDER
24 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service72

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2024Flash FloodStout-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 2023Thunderstorm WindStout-A tree was blown down several miles south of Winnsboro.
April 2016HailStout-A photo was posted to the KLTV Facebook page of 2 inch diameter hail that fell in the Stout community.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
East Point2.8 miles12
Cartwright4.0 miles12
Webster4.0 miles13
Oak Grove4.3 miles12
Ogburn4.5 miles14
Westbrook4.6 miles13
Winnsboro5.9 miles13
Pleasant Grove6.5 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.

Wikipedia article on StoutAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q119873065The 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.