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Yarnall, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Panhandle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79068. The Survey maps it on the Washburn quadrangle.

Yarnall within Carson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

47 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Yarnall between 2004 and 2020, burning about 5,316 acres in total. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural7
Debris and open burning5
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
23 August 2008Natural50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2008Natural1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2020Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
1 August 2006Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2006Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 287 & WEST END OF TOWN
6 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWAY 287 & CO. RDS. 5-7
4 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Yarnall: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Box Canyon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yarnall in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2006: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2006Thunderstorm WindYarnall-no account filed
May 2001HailYarnall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carson 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
Lee6.5 miles6
Conway8.3 miles8
Panhandle12.5 miles6
Abell13.3 miles6
Masterson14.5 miles7
Lark15.8 miles7
Pomeroy16.1 miles7
Cuyler18.7 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q122590967The 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 1380808. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.