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Vashti, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bellevue-Joy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76228. The Survey maps it on the Vashti quadrangle.

Vashti within Clay 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

68 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Vashti between 2005 and 2020, burning about 10,296 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural11
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2006Debris and open burning12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2011Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUTLER FIRE
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRAY FIRE
7 August 2006Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2006Natural15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2006Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2006Natural40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE & CAR FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vashti in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 8 hail, 3 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
August 2013Thunderstorm WindVashti$16,000Two barns de-roofed. At least one carport was also destroyed.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindVashti$50Several tree limbs were downed.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindVashti-Thunderstorm in the western part of north Texas during the evening hours on the 24th produced hail in excess of quarter-size and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds blew shingles off of roofs from 10 to 12 miles east of Henrietta.
April 2016HailVashti-no account filed
May 2013HailVashti-no account filed
February 2012HailVashti-no account filed
June 2012HailVashti-no account filed
May 2010HailVashti-no account filed
December 2002HailVashti-no account filed
April 2000HailVashti-no account filed
April 1996HailVashti-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Buffalo Springs5.2 miles7
Bellevue5.8 miles7
Newport6.2 miles7
Joy9.4 miles7
Prospect9.4 miles8
Shannon12.9 miles9
Bluegrove12.9 miles7
Dickworsham14.1 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1370596. 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.