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Three Way, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Duffau-Clairette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76401. It lies near Lone Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Johnsville quadrangle. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.

Three Way within Erath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

165 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Three Way between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,033 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning92
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use31
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural1

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
9 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2009088
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM2481/CR539
2 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2020SEP40
14 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE HWY67 N
13 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 204

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erath County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Three Way in 2 storm reports in 1994: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1994HailThree Way$50,000Wind-driven golf ball-size hail did considerable window and roof damage in southeast Erath County at Three Way.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindThree Way$5,000Wind-driven golf ball-size hail did considerable window and roof damage in southeast Erath County at Three Way.

Every storm recorded in Erath 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
Johnsville0.8 miles13
Selden4.2 miles13
Duffau5.2 miles12
Chalk Mountain6.3 miles15
Welcome Valley7.0 miles15
Knob Hill9.2 miles14
Clairette9.5 miles12
Stephenville10.1 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 Three WayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7797898The 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 2034963. 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.