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Turnersville, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Turnersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76528. It stands on Goldys Branch. The Survey maps it on the Turnersville quadrangle.

Turnersville within Coryell 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

74 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Turnersville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 746 acres in total. 4 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
21 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2020Debris and open burning23 acresTexas A & M Forest Service546
8 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service18-OCT
7 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service444
6 August 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.2 acresTexas A & M Forest Service437
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use150 acresTexas A & M Forest Service65
4 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service26-NOV

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turnersville in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2008Thunderstorm WindTurnersville$20,000Two 13' x 150' sheds holding chickens, geese, and quail were destroyed by an isolated downburst. Both structures rolled, killing or injuring some of the birds and releasing others.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindTurnersville$3,000Large trees were blown onto houses.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindTurnersville$2,000no account filed
May 2023Thunderstorm WindTurnersville$1,000Large trees were knocked down in Turnersville in northern Coryell County. Minor damage was reported at the fire station.
August 2016Flash FloodTurnersville-Coryell County Sheriff's Office reported the closure of the Highway 182/Hwy 217 intersection due to water over the road.
October 2013FloodTurnersville-Four roads in Coryell County were barricaded overnight due to heavy rainfall from thunderstorms.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindTurnersville-Two trees blown down.
February 2000HailTurnersville-no account filed
March 2000HailTurnersville-no account filed
May 1999HailTurnersville-no account filed
June 1998HailTurnersville-no account filed
April 1995HailTurnersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coryell 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
Pancake3.2 miles12
Hurst Springs4.1 miles12
Ames7.0 miles12
Jonesboro7.3 miles11
Coryell8.1 miles12
Ater9.2 miles12
Levita10.6 miles11
Osage11.2 miles12

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 TurnersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4116449The 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 1370299. 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.