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Whiteway, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hamilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76538. The Survey maps it on the Cutoff Mountain quadrangle.

Whiteway within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

40 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Whiteway between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,050 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
6 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use273 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2006Smoking15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service932 GRASS FIRE
9 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBARN CHURCH
19 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUTP
3 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEVERGREEN
6 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use273 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whiteway in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 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
May 2024Flash FloodWhiteway$30,000Fire and rescue reported that TX36 was flooded and impassable at CR 414 and 412 with water rescues occurring SE of Hamilton. Flooded underpasses were also reported in Evant at US281 and US84 resulting in vehicle entrapment. Water over the bridge at CR182 was reported as well.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindWhiteway$5,000Hamilton County Sheriff's Department reported 2 houses and 2 outhouses with major damage near the intersection of FM 932 and CR 432.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindWhiteway$2,000no account filed
April 2018HailWhiteway$1,000A trained spotter reported that ping pong ball sized hail cracked the windshield of a vehicle near the intersection of Highway 36 and FM 1602 approximately 2 miles east of the city of Whiteway, TX.
April 2018HailWhiteway$250A trained spotter reported that ping pong ball sized hail cracked the windshield of a car near the intersection of Hwy 36 and FM 1602.
April 2018HailWhiteway-Broadcast media reported golf ball sized hail in the city of Jonesboro, TX.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindWhiteway-Amateur radio reported trees down near the intersection of FM 1602 and Hwy 36.
August 1996Flash FloodWhiteway-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Aleman3.8 miles13
Lanham7.6 miles12
Parsley Crossing9.1 miles14
Hamilton9.1 miles13
Ohio9.4 miles14
Ballard Crossing9.4 miles14
Slab Crossing9.9 miles14
Schoolerville11.4 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 WhitewayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116029419The 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 1379270. 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.