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Tecula, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Jacksonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75766. It stands on Hetty Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tecula quadrangle. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

Tecula within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

325 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 325 fires within 5 miles of Tecula between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,652 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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 burning199
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use23
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Arson/incendiarism10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural5
Other causes1

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 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service435 FM 2064
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1/16 ACRE FIRE
6 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTRY CLUB
30 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1276 CR 3905
3 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4222

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tecula in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 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
June 2025Flash FloodTecula-Flash flooding reported with County Road 4211 closed due to water over the road.
April 2015HailTecula-Golfball size hail was reported east of Jacksonville, Texas.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindTecula-Trees were downed just northeast of the Mixon community.
December 2009Tornado (EF0)Tecula-An EF0 tornado touched down one mile northeast of Jacksonville Club Lake on the east end of CR 4218. One downed tree was observed with a few trees topped with large branches broken. The tornado tracked east northeast where more tree damage was|observed on CR 4222 and south of CR 4223. The tornado lifted after this point ending at 2:40 PM.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Mittie3.5 miles12
Pomona3.8 miles14
Gould4.0 miles15
Mixon4.8 miles15
Jacksonville5.0 miles10
Mount Selman5.2 miles14
Lake View5.9 miles10
Blackjack6.0 miles15

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 TeculaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076595The 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 1379143. 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.