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Twitty, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Wheeler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79079. The Survey maps it on the Twitty quadrangle. It stands 2,251 feet above sea level.

Twitty within Wheeler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

35 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Twitty between 2006 and 2020, burning about 4,701 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning4
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service662020
25 September 2020Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREG GARRISON
17 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service92-12
1 September 2010Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCO RD 15
1 September 2010Natural25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREED
1 September 2010Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJACK HELTON
15 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALKER FIRE
21 June 2009Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceARNOLD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wheeler County

Storms near this place

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twitty in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 15 hail, 3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
September 2013Thunderstorm WindTwitty$2,000A second broken line of thunderstorms moved across the southern Texas Panhandle during the late night hours of the 27th. This line of storms produced a downburst which blew a tree down onto U.S. Highway 83 two miles north of the town of Twitty (Wheeler County). This tree blocked traffic before it could be removed several hours later. The line which produced this gust continued to move eastward across the southern Texas Panhandle before entering western Oklahoma by 11:30 PM CST.
May 2022HailTwitty-Mostly small hail was observed with a few quarters. Quarters fell from 1822CDT to 1824CDT.
May 2017Tornado (EF2)Twitty-Multiple reports of a tornado from NWS Employee and storm chasers. This tornado touched down around 525 pm CDT 5 miles south southwest of wheeler. The tornado moved northeast and was on the ground for approximately 9.1 miles and around 19 minutes.
April 2015HailTwitty-Ping pong ball size hail was reported on Highway 83 by a storm chaser.
April 2014HailTwitty-A cluster of thunderstorms developed over Wheeler County shortly after 3:00 PM. These storms quickly strengthen, and a trained storm spotter reported quarter size hail (1.00 inch) 5 miles north-northwest of Shamrock (Wheeler County). The storm which produced this hail continued to move eastward across Wheeler County.
April 2014HailTwitty-A cluster of thunderstorms developed over Wheeler County shortly after 3:00 PM. These storms quickly strengthen, and a local broadcast media reported quarter size hail (1.00 inch) 5 miles north-northwest of Shamrock (Wheeler County). The storm which produced this hail continued to move eastward across Wheeler County.
April 2014HailTwitty-A supercell moved south of the city of Twitty (Wheeler County) during the early evening hours of the 20th. A storm chaser 1 mile south of Twitty (Wheeler County) reported quarter (1.00 inch) size hail. The storms that produced this hail continued to slowly move to the southeast after producing this hail.
August 2013Heavy RainTwitty-Training thunderstorms moved over Wheeler County during the early morning hours of the 16th. The Wheeler Sheriff's Office reported that low spots on U.S. Highway 83 near Twitty (Wheeler County) had water covering the highway. No swift water rescues or stranded motorist were reported in association to this heavy rain.
September 2003Flash FloodTwitty-Water was reported over the roadway along U.S. Highway 83.
May 2001Flash FloodTwitty-Shamrock Police Department reported six to eight inches of water over U.S. Highway 83 with several county roads under water.
June 1997Tornado (F0)Twitty-Tornado was anticyclonic and remained over open country. Tornado track was estimated.
June 1997Tornado (F0)Twitty-Tornado remained over open country and track was estimated.
April 2019HailTwitty-no account filed
June 2012HailTwitty-no account filed
June 2012HailTwitty-no account filed
June 2012HailTwitty-no account filed
May 2008HailTwitty-no account filed
May 2008HailTwitty-no account filed
May 2008HailTwitty-no account filed
June 2006HailTwitty-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindTwitty-no account filed
May 2001HailTwitty-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindTwitty-no account filed
November 1996HailTwitty-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wheeler 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
Shamrock6.9 miles6
Magic City8.1 miles6
Lela8.2 miles6
Norrick8.8 miles6
Kelton8.9 miles5
Wheeler9.3 miles6
Fuller9.6 miles5
Pakan10.5 miles6

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 TwittyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21072713The 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 1370382. 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.