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Turney, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Jacksonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75766. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville East quadrangle. It stands 400 feet above sea level.

Turney within Cherokee 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

402 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 402 fires within 5 miles of Turney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,196 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 13 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 burning266
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Smoking18
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism13
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Natural5
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2017Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1416
8 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR1418
8 September 2011Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1614
7 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7 MILE HILL
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTRY CLUB
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 587
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 22
28 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1530

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee 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 Turney: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Hudson Pit & PlantIronProducer

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turney in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2015: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
April 2015Thunderstorm WindTurney-Trees and powerlines were downed along FM. 241 and Hwy. 69 west of Gallatin, Texas.
January 2012HailTurney-Golf ball sized hail reported on CR 1517 between Jacksonville and Gallatin, Texas.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindTurney-Trees were downed on FM. 22 and along other county roads.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindTurney-Multiple reports of trees down southeast of town.
December 2002HailTurney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Craft2.2 miles12
Gallatin2.9 miles12
Dialville4.0 miles11
Mittie4.7 miles12
Jacksonville5.5 miles10
Elm Grove5.6 miles11
Delmer5.8 miles11
New Hope6.1 miles10

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 TurneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076601The 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 1379184. 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.