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Styx, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75143. The Survey maps it on the Styx quadrangle. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Styx within Kaufman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

135 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Styx between 1996 and 2019, burning about 1,232 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Smoking1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011-409
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011-404
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-396
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-398
5 September 2008Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution440 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-391
26 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Styx in 2 storm reports in 2015: 2 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
December 2015FloodStyx-A levee breach along the Trinity River south of Highway 34 on November 29th, continued to flood the surrounding area in Kaufman County.
November 2015FloodStyx-Emergency management reported flooding due to a levee breach along the Trinity River south of highway 34.

Every storm recorded in Kaufman 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
Lively3.2 miles10
Stubbs3.8 miles10
Peeltown4.0 miles9
Tolosa4.7 miles12
Kemp7.6 miles13
Grays Prairie7.6 miles10
Cottonwood7.9 miles9
Rosser9.5 miles9

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 StyxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076591The 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 1379128. 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.