BlockTelephone, Texas
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Ravenna-Telephone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75488. The Survey maps it on the Telephone quadrangle. It stands 568 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 6 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 Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Wade quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Telephone quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
109 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Telephone between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,269 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 | 65 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 2006 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GEORGE & PATRICIA REID |
| 22 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WALDROP |
| 20 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TERRY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Telephone in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Telephone | 2 hurt, $10,000 | A mobile home was blown over. Two persons were injured. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Telephone | $70,000 | Insurance companies reported 19 auto claims and 112 house claims for window and roof damage caused by hail. Most of the damage was reported in the communities of Telephone and Monkstown. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Telephone | $10,000 | The local post office reported golf-ball sized hail several miles north of Telephone, TX. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Telephone | $5,000 | Storm spotter reported ping pong size hail near the city of Telephone, TX. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Telephone | $5,000 | A tree fell on a power pole, causing electrical outages in the northern part of the county. |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Telephone | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Telephone | $3,000 | Emergency management reported golf ball sized hail in Telephone, TX. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Telephone | $2,000 | A tree was blown down near Telephone. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Telephone | - | Emergency management reported that several trees were blown down in the Telephone area. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Telephone | - | There were several reports of flash flooding extending from the Telephone area southwest to Ivanhoe, and then south to Lake Bonham. |
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.
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 Telephone | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7696455 | 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 1369685. 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.