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Tuxedo, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Stamford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79553. The Survey maps it on the Tuxedo quadrangle. It stands 1,683 feet above sea level.

Tuxedo within Jones County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

22 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Tuxedo between 2006 and 2020, burning about 452 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2

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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
26 August 2006Natural12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCALIFORNIA CREEK 3
30 April 2011Debris and open burning80 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCALIFORNIA CREEK 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Storms near this place

12 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tuxedo in 12 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2024HailTuxedo-Public reported quarter size hail.
June 2023HailTuxedo-Public report of quarter size hail was from mPing.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindTuxedo-An Amateur Radio Operator reported 4 telephone poles knocked down on Highway 92.
May 2019FloodTuxedo-Intersection of State Highway 6 and FM 1636 is flooded and impassable. Also, numerous|low water crossings were flooded throughout Jones County.
September 2018FloodTuxedo-Facebook Post from the public showed Highway 92 in Tuxedo flooded.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindTuxedo-The public reported numerous tree limbs blown down in Tuxedo.
May 2015HailTuxedo-Hen egg size hail was reported on FM Road 1636, halfway between Anson and Stamford. The time was estimated by radar.
June 2009Flash FloodTuxedo-Major roads were reported flooded.
April 2007Flash FloodTuxedo-Water was reported over the road at US 83 and County Road 159.
March 2018HailTuxedo-no account filed
April 2009HailTuxedo-no account filed
September 2007HailTuxedo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jones 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
Pastura4.1 miles12
Plainview4.7 miles11
Corinth7.0 miles11
Radium7.5 miles11
Stamford7.9 miles11
New Hope9.2 miles11
Hamlin9.8 miles12
Neinda12.0 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 TuxedoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23817790The 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 1379185. 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.