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Tiffin, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Ranger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76470. The Survey maps it on the Ranger quadrangle.

Tiffin within Eastland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

61 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Tiffin between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,264 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
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
9 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceC/R 459 FIRE
8 September 2011Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGE RAILCAR REKINDLE
7 September 2011Railroad operations and maintenance34 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGE RAIL FIRE
2 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGARNER FIRE
2 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGH POINT DRIVE FIRE
3 August 2018Natural323 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRANGER
2 August 2012Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINSETT SPRINGS FIRE
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH HIPOINT DRIVE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eastland County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tiffin: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Featherlite Corp Ranger PlantClayProducer
Laura Todd PitClayProducer
Ranger Clay Company OperationsClayProducer
Ranger PitsClayProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Eastland County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tiffin in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 6 hail, 1 heavy rain, 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 2013Heavy RainTiffin$50,000A 24 year old female was killed in a chain reaction accident on Ranger Hill in rainy conditions.
March 2025HailTiffin-Reported via mPING east of Ranger.
May 2016Flash FloodTiffin-Interstate 20 eastbound between Mile Markers 357-358 was flooded.
April 2011HailTiffin-Quarter size hail was reported at Ranger Hill.
April 2011HailTiffin-Quarter size hail fell about 6 miles east of Ranger.
May 2010HailTiffin-Nickel hail fell near the intersection of Interstate 20 and Highway 16 east of Ranger.
May 2010HailTiffin-Quarter size hail fell 2 miles east of the city of Ranger.
March 2009HailTiffin-Penny size hail was reported on HWY 717 3 miles north of Ranger.

Every storm recorded in Eastland 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
Bullock1.8 miles13
Ranger2.0 miles13
Merriman (historical)5.4 miles13
Olden7.1 miles13
Morton Valley8.3 miles13
Chaney9.3 miles12
Staff9.7 miles12
Eastland10.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379162. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.