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Truce, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Jacksboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76230. It lies near Galliher Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Newport quadrangle.

Truce within Jack County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

47 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Truce between 2005 and 2020, burning about 10,015 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGILBERT FIRE
28 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2018Natural6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHERRY FIRE
19 September 2006Arson/incendiarism23 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2011Recreation and ceremony7,328 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHERRY HOMES FIRE
10 August 2008Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE CALL 3929 STARK RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jack County

Storms near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Truce in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindTruce$15,000Emergency manager reported large trees were snapped and a metal roof was removed from a barn 14 miles northwest of Jacksboro.
May 2020HailTruce$3,000Golf ball sized hail was reported near the intersection of Montague, Jack and Wise counties.
March 2023HailTruce-Reported via mPing.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindTruce-Estimated winds of 50-60 mph were reported in northeast Jack County.
November 2021HailTruce-Emergency management reported half-dollar sized hail in the city of Newport, TX.
December 2006Tornado (F0)Truce-Bowie Police Department relayed a public report of a tornado in northeast Jack County near the Montague County line. No damage was reported.

Every storm recorded in Jack 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
Postoak6.7 miles8
Cundiff6.9 miles8
Maryetta8.3 miles7
Oakland13.8 miles9
Wizard Wells15.0 miles8
Jacksboro15.0 miles9
Lynn Creek15.8 miles8
Vineyard17.3 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380678. 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.