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Young, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fairfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75840. The Survey maps it on the Young quadrangle.

Young within Freestone 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

33 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Young between 2000 and 2020, burning about 544 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
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
3 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFCR 221 GRASS FIRE
3 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFCR 221 GRASS FIRE 2
19 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1509011 ROBINSON RANCH
31 August 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2570 GRASS FIRE
31 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3015
30 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1908011 MINE FIRE
2 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFCR 235 GRASS FIRE
1 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFCR 901 FF GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Freestone County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Young in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 1994Thunderstorm WindYoung$5,000Trees were blown down by high winds in Northeast Freestone County.
July 2021HailYoung-no account filed
April 1996Tornado (F0)Young-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Freestone 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
Bonnerville4.7 miles7
Ward Prairie6.2 miles7
Stewards Mill6.6 miles7
Rhode Island8.2 miles7
Saint Elmo8.5 miles9
Fairfield9.3 miles8
Winkler9.5 miles9
Turlington10.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379298. 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.