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Wieland, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75402. The Survey maps it on the Greenville SE quadrangle.

Wieland within Hunt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

271 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Wieland between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,431 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning198
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use22
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
8 September 2017Debris and open burning3.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service660 CR 2266
8 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1564
6 September 2010Debris and open burning5.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2206 FIRE
4 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service686 F.M. 1903
24 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5745 RANCHO DR
23 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4508 CR 3323
23 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service548 CR 3501
23 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1903

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hunt County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wieland in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 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
November 2015FloodWieland-Hunt County Sheriff's Department reported that Highway 69 was closed for about half an hour due to high hater.
May 2024HailWieland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hunt 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
Weiland0.2 miles6
Cash2.9 miles13
Mount Bethel3.5 miles6
Dixon4.2 miles6
Meadowview4.6 miles6
Boles Home5.2 miles13
Center Point5.3 miles6
Lone Oak6.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034625. 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.