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Whitton, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cedar Creek Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75103. It stands on Coppers Branch. The Survey maps it on the Phalba quadrangle. It stands 449 feet above sea level.

Whitton within Van Zandt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

48 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Whitton between 1996 and 2018, burning about 834 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
Debris and open burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use5
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
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1255
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2909
14 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVZCR 2118 AND VZCR 2134
19 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Zandt County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitton in 1 storm report in 1994: 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
October 1994HailWhitton-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
Wise3.0 miles10
Jackson3.5 miles13
Four Mile Prairie4.0 miles11
Phalba4.2 miles13
Watkins4.3 miles10
Roddy5.0 miles11
Wallace5.3 miles13
High6.1 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 WhittonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16903353The 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 1379271. 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.