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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Styx quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
135 since 1996Regional 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 burning | 62 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 43 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011-409 |
| 6 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011-404 |
| 6 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011-396 |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011-398 |
| 5 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 440 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011-391 |
| 26 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2015Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2015 | Flood | Styx | - | A levee breach along the Trinity River south of Highway 34 on November 29th, continued to flood the surrounding area in Kaufman County. |
| November 2015 | Flood | Styx | - | Emergency management reported flooding due to a levee breach along the Trinity River south of highway 34. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lively | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Stubbs | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Peeltown | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Tolosa | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Kemp | 7.6 miles | 13 | |
| Grays Prairie | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Cottonwood | 7.9 miles | 9 | |
| Rosser | 9.5 miles | 9 |
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 Styx | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22076591 | 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 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.



