BlockBefore

Tigertown, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sumner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75486. It stands on Bergher Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tigertown quadrangle.

Tigertown within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

73 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Tigertown between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,167 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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 burning40
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural2
Smoking2
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
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2216@2420
6 September 2015Debris and open burning35 acresTexas A & M Forest Service37100
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSAM MAGNESS
25 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9/2/15 GRASS FIRE
17 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11038
15 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tigertown in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 8 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
April 2007Thunderstorm WindTigertown1 hurt, $5,000One mobile home was destroyed and another damaged. One person was hit in the face and cut by flying debris from the mobile homes.
April 2020HailTigertown$10,000A trained spotter reported 2-inch diameter hail in the city of Tigertown, TX.
April 2011HailTigertown$10,000Golfball sized hail fell in Tigertown which is approximately 12 miles west-northwest of Paris.
January 2010HailTigertown$5,000Quarter to golfball size hail fell in the town of Tigertown.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindTigertown$2,000A tree was blown down 1 mile south of Tigertown.
May 2017HailTigertown-Emergency Manager reported golf ball size hail at the Lamar and Fannin County line near the Tigertown community.
April 1994Tornado (F0)Tigertown-A brief tornado touchdown was reported in Tigertown in western Fannin County.
April 1994HailTigertown-Thunderstorm winds blew down a barn and damaged the roof of a house.
September 2023HailTigertown-no account filed
May 2008HailTigertown-no account filed
May 2001HailTigertown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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
Maxey2.9 miles12
Georgia3.1 miles12
Forest Hill4.4 miles12
Unity4.4 miles12
Globe5.7 miles11
East Direct7.1 miles12
Sumner7.2 miles11
Direct7.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1369938. 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.