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Venable, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Augustine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75972. It stands on Steep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chinquapin quadrangle.

Venable within San Augustine 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

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Venable between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,491 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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 burning72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
6 September 2013Fireworks15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7113
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7098
3 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
16 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7125
16 September 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 902

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Augustine County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Venable 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
November 2022Thunderstorm WindVenable-A large tree and a telephone pole was snapped at a home near the intersection of Highway 96 and FM 1751.
May 2016Flash FloodVenable-Flash flooding was reported on County Road 410 over Clear Branch Creek just west of Highway 96 south of San Augustine.

Every storm recorded in San Augustine 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
Maxey Town2.3 miles12
Conville2.4 miles12
Sunrise3.4 miles12
Union Grave3.6 miles13
Chinquapin4.2 miles12
Rebecca4.6 miles12
Fords Corner4.6 miles12
San Augustine4.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380713. 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.