Turlington, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Butler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75840. The Survey maps it on the Turlington quadrangle.

Turlington within Freestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1919 USGS Fairfield quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Turlington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Mexia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

55 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Turlington between 2000 and 2020, burning about 411 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 500@ CR 503 GRASS FIRE
21 September 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KEN MADDOX
20 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FCR 522 GRASS FIRE
19 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	M/A GRASS FIRE HWY 84
18 September 2002	Debris and open burning	90 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 215
9 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE E HWY 84
29 August 2012	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTIAL AID FAIRFIELD FD GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Freestone 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 Turlington: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Blue Mountain Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Freestone County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turlington in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
November 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Turlington	$5,000	Trees were blown down by high winds.

Every storm recorded in Freestone 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Red Lake	5.5 miles	10
Fairfield	6.2 miles	8
Ward Prairie	6.5 miles	7
Lanely	6.5 miles	8
Butler	7.3 miles	10
Plum Creek	7.6 miles	9
Dew	8.2 miles	8
Avant Prairie	8.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380685. 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.