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Urbana, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Shepherd-Evergreen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77371. It stands on Fish Branch. The Survey maps it on the Goodrich quadrangle.

Urbana within San Jacinto 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Urbana between 1992 and 2020, burning about 898 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 burning91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePHILLIP 66 STATION
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSAN JACINTO 15:00
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceINDUSTRIAL BLVD
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceELMORE LOOP
5 September 2004Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 42
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM222 @ 1ST STR
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasBLUEBIRD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Jacinto County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Urbana in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 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
September 2022Thunderstorm WindUrbana-Several trees were downed near the Wildwood Circle and Briarwood Dr area. Two homes sustained exterior damage, and one of the homes hat its roof partially peeled off.
April 2016Flash FloodUrbana-There was street flooding in the town of Coldspring. There was also water inundating Highway 59 south of the town of Goodrich.

Every storm recorded in San Jacinto 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
Shepherd4.8 miles13
Drews Landing5.2 miles12
Napier5.9 miles12
Camilla6.0 miles14
Lake Water Wheel6.6 miles13
Strington7.0 miles13
Lake Tejas7.1 miles13
Rose Hill7.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380701. 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.