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Turnertown, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Price-Turnertown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75684. The Survey maps it on the Price quadrangle. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

Turnertown within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

445 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 445 fires within 5 miles of Turnertown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,773 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 16 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 burning175
Missing data/not specified/undetermined138
Power generation/transmission/distribution54
Equipment and vehicle use41
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural9
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 September 2013Fireworks2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6308
9 September 2011Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 511
9 September 1997Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7125
8 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6291
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined390 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePRICE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turnertown in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 1998Thunderstorm WindTurnertown$80,000Two mobile homes destroyed by fallen trees.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindTurnertown-Power lines were downed on CR 4115 and CR 4117.
April 2023HailTurnertown-Hail measured slightly larger than 2 inches in diameter (hen egg size) fell in the Turnertown community.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindTurnertown-A few trees were downed west of Henderson, Texas.

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
Selman City0.6 miles13
Old London2.6 miles13
Joinerville2.7 miles13
London2.9 miles13
New London3.4 miles13
Friars3.8 miles13
Price3.9 miles13
Stringtown5.5 miles13

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 TurnertownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116371284The 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 1348918. 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.