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Thelma, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Groesbeck census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76642. The Survey maps it on the Groesbeck quadrangle.

Thelma within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

79 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Thelma between 2005 and 2020, burning about 915 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2008Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2008Debris and open burning150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 228
6 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service80601
5 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thelma in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 hail. 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
July 1994HailThelma-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Horn Hill1.5 miles7
Fort Parker3.6 miles8
Lavender4.1 miles7
Frosa5.5 miles8
Doyle5.6 miles8
Forest Glade5.8 miles9
Groesbeck5.8 miles8
Kirk6.2 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380655. 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.