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The Grove, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Flat census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76528. The Survey maps it on the Leon Junction quadrangle.

The Grove within Coryell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

90 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of The Grove between 2002 and 2020, burning about 2,581 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None was 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
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 2011Debris and open burning500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOTHER NEFF AREA FIRE CONT.
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHORSESHOE BEND FIRE
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHORSESHOE BEND FIRE
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRHUDY FIRE
3 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13057 IRON BRIDGE
24 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOODY LEON
2 September 2014Debris and open burning4.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 341/1910
2 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 38

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names The Grove in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
October 2013LightningThe Grove$2,000A lightning strike damaged an underground cable near Lake Belton that caused the Gatesville Regional Water Intake Structure to lose power. As a result, all Gatesville ISD campuses and less than 100 homes were without water through Monday.
May 2020HailThe Grove$1,000no account filed
April 2010Thunderstorm WindThe Grove$500The local newspaper reported a few trees were down in The Grove area and were blocking roads.
March 2014HailThe Grove-Quarter sized hail was reported at the intersection of Highway 36 and 360.
May 2020HailThe Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coryell 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
Cold Springs5.3 miles19
Leon Junction5.9 miles17
Flat6.1 miles16
Whitson6.1 miles16
Cavitt7.1 miles16
Riggs Ford7.8 miles17
Mound8.0 miles16
Lime City8.4 miles16

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 The GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7738383The 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 1369783. 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.