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Woods, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gary City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75974. The Survey maps it on the Old Center quadrangle.

Woods within Panola County

On record in Woods

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Woods between 1992 and 2020, burning about 368 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Other causes1
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
9 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 534
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS 9-4-11
30 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6164
24 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 564
16 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 126
1 September 1995Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS 8-9-09

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Panola County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woods in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindWoods-Tree downed on FM Road 699 near the Antioch community southeast of Carthage.
July 2024Tornado (EF1)Woods-This is a continuation of the Northern Shelby County tornado. This EF-1 tornado, with estimated maximum winds near 100 mph, continued north-northwest through Southern Panola County along CR 439, where numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado then crossed CR 430 about 1.5 miles east of FM 699, before moving across a heavily wooded area and moving across CR 430 again just east of CR 4353. Additional trees were snapped and uprooted in this area, before moving along CR 437 just east of FM 699 where the tornado began to weaken and lift, with only large branches snapped here.
May 2022HailWoods-Quarter-sized hail northeast of Tenaha.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindWoods-Trees were blown down on FM 999 just east of County Road 420.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindWoods-Trees were blown down on County Road 430.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindWoods-Several trees were blown down across Panola County.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWoods-Trees were downed across the entire county...including across Farm to Market 31 southeast of Carthage, Texas.
March 1997Flash FloodWoods-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Panola 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
Old Center3.2 miles17
Shady Grove3.5 miles13
Antioch6.6 miles13
Gary6.7 miles13
Daniels7.8 miles13
Pleasant Ridge8.1 miles13
Galloway9.3 miles18
Buncome9.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1376867. 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.