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Thicket, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Saratoga-Batson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77374. The Survey maps it on the Votaw quadrangle. It stands 125 feet above sea level.

Thicket within Hardin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

100 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Thicket between 1993 and 2019, burning about 4,147 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 40 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
Arson/incendiarism40
Debris and open burning26
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 2013Fireworks10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9167
21 September 2009Natural30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 225
2 September 2000Natural150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 637
2 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined516 acresBig Thicket National ParkTFS 637
15 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRAGG RD
25 August 2009Natural54 acresLivingston AreaWOODVILLE - 213
22 August 2009Debris and open burning125 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 212

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thicket in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2012: 4 hail, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
October 2000FloodThicket$20,000no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindThicket$2,000no account filed
July 2012Flash FloodThicket-Heavy rain fell on an already saturated area causing the upper reaches of Pine Island Bayou and Little Pine Island Bayou. Water cover portions of Highway 787 during the event.
April 2006HailThicket-no account filed
May 2006HailThicket-no account filed
June 2003HailThicket-no account filed
March 2001HailThicket-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Votaw3.6 miles14
Bragg3.8 miles14
Lelavale7.8 miles13
Saratoga9.4 miles14
Honey Island10.0 miles13
Batson10.2 miles13
Rattlesnake Bend11.2 miles13
Dies12.4 miles13

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 ThicketAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7783952The 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 1380656. 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.