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Trumbull, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Ferris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75125. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Palmer quadrangle.

Trumbull within Ellis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

58 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Trumbull between 2005 and 2019, burning about 6,200 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
24 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1900 FM 664
24 September 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROLLING HILLS
11 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2600 FM 660
3 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNEWTON ROAD
16 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 July 2013Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service013-120
6 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service900 FM 664

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Trumbull: 1 producer. 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
Ferris Clay Pit & PlantClayProducer

Every working recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trumbull in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 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
May 2024HailTrumbull$11,000Public reported 2 inch hail near Palmer.
August 2016Flash FloodTrumbull-Emergency management reported 8 to 12 inches of water on Interstate 45 about 3 miles south of Ferris, TX.

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Ferris3.0 miles18
India3.6 miles19
Palmer4.1 miles11
Rockett5.4 miles10
Bristol5.4 miles11
Walnut Springs6.3 miles19
Pecan Hill6.4 miles10
Elva7.3 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on TrumbullAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65120226The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1348818. 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.