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Tolbert, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fargo-Odell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76384. The Survey maps it on the Tolbert quadrangle.

Tolbert within Wilbarger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

41 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Tolbert between 2007 and 2015, burning about 1,025 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning7
Smoking5
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOVERPASS
28 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAN WHITE
1 September 2010Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePERKINS FARMS
6 August 2008Smoking4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGARY ROGERS FIRE
27 August 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFLYNN FARMS
19 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined350 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFARGO FIRE
13 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePERKINS FARMS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilbarger County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tolbert in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2005: 4 hail, 3 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 2005Thunderstorm WindTolbert-no account filed
May 2005HailTolbert-no account filed
June 2005HailTolbert-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindTolbert-no account filed
April 2003HailTolbert-no account filed
May 1999HailTolbert-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindTolbert-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wilbarger 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
Farmers Valley4.8 miles10
White City5.0 miles9
Northside7.9 miles9
Fargo8.2 miles9
Vernon8.3 miles9
Hinds8.8 miles9
Odell8.8 miles9
Lockett9.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380670. 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.