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Wentworth, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Canton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75103. It stands on Myrtle Branch. The Survey maps it on the Canton quadrangle.

Wentworth within Van Zandt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

165 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Wentworth between 1996 and 2020, burning about 923 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined92
Debris and open burning64
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2211 VZCR 3501
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2909
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4107
6 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4123
4 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 64
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAWN VIEW RANCH FIRE
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOAK ST
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1/2 MILE NORTH OF HWY 64

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Zandt County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wentworth in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2019: 2 tornado, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
May 2019Tornado (EF1)Wentworth$1,000A tornado developed northeast of Canton, then tracked to the north-northeast affecting mostly vegetation. Several trees were snapped and uprooted along the path. As the tornado began to occlude, minor damage was found to a property along FM 17 and Van Zandt CR 1222. Maximum winds with the tornado were estimated at 90 mph.
May 2019Tornado (EFU)Wentworth-A spotter reported debris being lofted by a tornado north of FM 17 and Interstate 20. This is the same location where a tornado tracked later in the day and where signs of damage remain from a tornado that crossed that area in 2017, so determining a path was near impossible.
March 2012FloodWentworth-Heavy rain left residual flooding that closed the intersection of Farm-to-Market 1255 and County Road 1652. Farm-to-Market 1255 was also closed at the intersection with Highway 110.
April 2017HailWentworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Zandt 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
Oakland2.7 miles13
Canton3.3 miles13
Corinth4.6 miles14
Lawrence Springs4.9 miles11
Colfax5.8 miles14
Clower6.2 miles14
Myrtle Springs7.1 miles13
Wallace7.4 miles13

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 WentworthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116055754The 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 1379252. 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.