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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.

Wright City within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

414 since 1992

Regional 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 burning161
Missing data/not specified/undetermined136
Power generation/transmission/distribution39
Equipment and vehicle use32
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural9
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2013Fireworks2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6308
9 September 2011Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 511
8 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined390 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePRICE FIRE
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 527
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 1994Thunderstorm WindWright City$50,000Three houses were damaged by high winds.
May 2019Flash FloodWright City-FM 2089 was flooded just southwest of Overton at the Smith/Rusk County line.

Every storm recorded in Smith 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
Salem2.5 miles15
Arp4.2 miles15
Sinclair City4.9 miles15
Omen6.4 miles15
Troup8.0 miles15
Blackjack10.2 miles16
Douglas11.5 miles16
New Chapel Hill12.4 miles16

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076619The 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.