Wright City, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Troup-Arp census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75789. It stands on Allan Branch. The Survey maps it on the Price quadrangle. It stands 420 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1935 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:48000
- 1939 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1973 USGS Price quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
414 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 414 fires within 5 miles of Wright City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,532 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 19 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 burning | 161 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 136 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 32 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2013 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6308 |
| 9 September 2011 | Natural | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 511 |
| 8 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 390 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PRICE FIRE |
| 7 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 527 |
| 7 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wright City in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wright City | $50,000 | Three houses were damaged by high winds. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Wright City | - | FM 2089 was flooded just southwest of Overton at the Smith/Rusk County line. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salem | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Arp | 4.2 miles | 15 | |
| Sinclair City | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Omen | 6.4 miles | 15 | |
| Troup | 8.0 miles | 15 | |
| Blackjack | 10.2 miles | 16 | |
| Douglas | 11.5 miles | 16 | |
| New Chapel Hill | 12.4 miles | 16 |
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 Wright City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22076619 | The 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 1350611. 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.





