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Truby, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Anson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79501. It stands on Dark Hollow Branch. The Survey maps it on the Truby quadrangle.

Truby within Jones County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

49 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Truby between 2005 and 2015, burning about 1,001 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
6 September 2007Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service809
30 July 2008Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9710
20 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9709
13 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9705
4 June 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12-061

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Truby in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2011: 2 hail. 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
April 2011HailTruby-no account filed
May 2006HailTruby-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jones 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
Hodges4.9 miles15
Hawley6.3 miles15
Stith6.9 miles12
Noodle7.3 miles13
Anson7.8 miles11
Funston9.9 miles11
North Abilene10.8 miles15
Fort Phantom Hill (historical)12.9 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379177. 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.