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White Rock, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Annona-Avery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75426. The Survey maps it on the White Rock quadrangle. It stands 430 feet above sea level.

White Rock within Red River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of White Rock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,589 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 9 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 burning39
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2011Debris and open burning18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARTER#1
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARTER#2
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use250 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2004Debris and open burning80 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 189
3 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 356
24 September 2006Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 449
20 September 1994Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red River 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 White Rock: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
UnknownLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Red River County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Rock in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2016: 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
May 2016Thunderstorm WindWhite Rock-Multiple trees were blown down in the northeast part of Red River County.
May 2009Flash FloodWhite Rock-FM 1699 was closed from excessive heavy rainfall near the community of White Rock.

Every storm recorded in Red River 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
Caney2.4 miles10
Madras3.1 miles10
Reeds Settlement3.2 miles10
English4.0 miles9
Dilworth4.3 miles10
Vessey4.9 miles10
Vandalia5.0 miles8
Mena (historical)5.1 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.

Wikidata item Q131312101The 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 1380772. 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.