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Valdasta, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Blue Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75424. It stands on Brinlee Branch. The Survey maps it on the Blue Ridge quadrangle. It stands 512 feet above sea level.

Valdasta within Collin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

106 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Valdasta between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,523 acres in total. None 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 500 GRASS FIRE
8 September 2009Arson/incendiarism25 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1142 N BUS 78 FIRE
7 September 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 78 @ FM 981 FIRE
7 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1135 N BUS 78 FIRE
28 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceELM STREET BRUSH FIRE
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGLENWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin 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 Valdasta: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Collin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valdasta in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 hail. 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
March 2013HailValdasta-Amateur radio operators reported dime to nickel sized hail covering the ground in far northeast Collin County.

Every storm recorded in Collin 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
Chambliss1.3 miles7
Altoga3.2 miles10
Verona3.4 miles7
Blue Ridge3.7 miles7
Fayburg4.7 miles7
Westminster4.8 miles7
Snow Hill5.3 miles7
Melissa5.4 miles8

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 ValdastaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076606The 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 1380703. 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.