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Uncertain, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Waskom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75661. It lies near Taylor Island. The Survey maps it on the Potters Point quadrangle. 85 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 180 feet above sea level.

Uncertain within Harrison County

Population over time

3 figures

Uncertain fell from 150 to 85 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000150
201094-56 (-37%)
202085-9 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

117 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Uncertain between 1993 and 2020, burning about 744 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 8 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 burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
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
7 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 564
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCOTT HARDY
27 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2013Fireworks1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6329
12 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHARON DEWS
11 September 2014Naturalunder an acreCaddo Lake National Wildlife RefugeWF AVE Q TOO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uncertain in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2014: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2014Thunderstorm WindUncertain-Powerlines were downed west of Mooringsport, Louisiana in Harrison County, Texas.
November 2011Thunderstorm WindUncertain-A tree was downed off of FM. 2198 near Uncertain, Texas.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindUncertain-Trees were downed near the edge of Caddo Lake.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindUncertain-Trees and powerlines downed.
May 1998HailUncertain-Reported at Caddo Lake State Park.
May 1993HailUncertain-Hail fell at Caddo State Park.
May 2014HailUncertain-no account filed
October 1996HailUncertain-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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
South Shore3.5 miles15
Karnack4.0 miles14
Swansons Landing4.3 miles15
Baldwin6.0 miles14
Leigh7.4 miles14
Latex8.5 miles15
Lotta9.3 miles15
Pope City10.0 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 UncertainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969536The 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 1349024. 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.