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Warsaw, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Crandall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75142. The Survey maps it on the Scurry quadrangle. It stands 377 feet above sea level.

Warsaw within Kaufman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

86 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Warsaw between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,218 acres in total. 1 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2014Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 175
4 September 2011Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTIAL AID
15 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEDAR RIDGE
14 September 2005Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTURKEY FARM
8 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGASTONIA
5 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM1390
3 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman 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 Warsaw: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Limestone Sand & Graval QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kaufman County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warsaw in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 flash flood. 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
June 2016Flash FloodWarsaw$3,000Water was up to the eaves of one house near the community of Warsaw.

Every storm recorded in Kaufman 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
Warsaw Center0.4 miles11
Scurry3.0 miles11
Gastonia4.4 miles11
Combine5.4 miles19
Oak Grove5.4 miles10
Crandall5.7 miles12
Cottonwood5.9 miles9
Rosser6.3 miles9

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 WarsawAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076612The 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 1349502. 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.