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Vincent, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Big Spring North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79511. The Survey maps it on the Vincent quadrangle.

Vincent within Howard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

20 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Vincent between 2006 and 2020, burning about 954 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None was 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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 2009Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 49
20 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service350 AND 1205
31 August 2020Natural9.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 53 & HWY 350
1 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNCR 53 AND 350
21 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use60 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 June 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 53 AND 34
2 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service21005 EAST HIGHWAY 350
19 June 2020Natural300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 57

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howard County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vincent in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 4 hail, 3 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 2014Flash FloodVincent$20,000Heavy rain fell across Howard County and produced flash flooding near Vincent. A pickup truck washed off the road at the intersection of Farm to Market road 1205 and Farm to Market road 846. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
September 2014Flash FloodVincent$500Heavy rain fell across Howard County and produced flash flooding in Vincent. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
March 2004Flash FloodVincent-Running water flooded roadways near Vincent.
May 2016HailVincent-no account filed
May 2012HailVincent-no account filed
May 1996HailVincent-no account filed
May 1996HailVincent-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindVincent-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Howard 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
Luther12.5 miles10
Coahoma13.5 miles10
Sand Springs15.3 miles10
Midway16.2 miles10
Ziler17.2 miles11
Fairview17.8 miles9
Vealmoor18.5 miles8
Big Spring20.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1349291. 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.