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Unity, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sumner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75486. It stands on Shooter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Direct quadrangle.

Unity within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

90 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Unity between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,158 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning58
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking4
Natural1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSAM MAGNESS
26 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDIRECT MA
25 September 2015Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDIRECT PASTURE FIRE
24 September 2008Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11038
15 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS GRASS
15 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM79DOCKREY
12 September 2015Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service35400A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar 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 Unity: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ford Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Unity in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2000: 2 hail, 1 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindUnity$50,000Thunderstorm wind damage was reported to trees and power lines in Unity.
May 2000HailUnity-no account filed
April 1995HailUnity-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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
Globe3.0 miles11
Georgia4.2 miles12
Maxey4.3 miles12
Tigertown4.4 miles12
East Direct4.5 miles12
Bunker Hill4.6 miles12
Sumner4.6 miles11
Ragtown5.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382897. 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.