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Wealthy, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Normangee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77871. The Survey maps it on the Hilltop Lakes quadrangle.

Wealthy within Leon 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

55 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Wealthy between 2005 and 2019, burning about 319 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
27 September 2011Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1940 FIRE
23 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFRITZ FIRE
15 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service488
8 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOSR
3 August 2013Debris and open burning18 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4029
25 August 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leon County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wealthy in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2015: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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
March 2014HailWealthy$30,000Golf ball sized hail was reported in the Hilltop Lakes development in southwest Leon County.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindWealthy$5,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees in the Hilltop Lakes area.
December 2015FloodWealthy-County Road 466 north of OSR remained underwater for several hours after heavy rain fell over the county.
December 2015Flash FloodWealthy-County Road 466 north of OSR was underwater after heavy rain fell over the county.
March 2014HailWealthy-Quarter sized hail was reported in the Hilltop Lakes development in southwest Leon County.
March 2011HailWealthy-Penny size hail fell in Hilltop Lake.

Every storm recorded in Leon 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
Normangee3.5 miles7
Hilltop Lakes4.0 miles7
Flynn9.2 miles7
Venetia9.6 miles11
Cross Roads14.1 miles9
Leona14.3 miles9
Margie14.4 miles7
Spring Seat14.7 miles7

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 WealthyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196657The 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 1370963. 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.