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Yowell, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It lies in ZIP code area 75428. The Survey maps it on the Klondike quadrangle.

Yowell within Delta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

128 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Yowell between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,503 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Debris and open burning46
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural2
Smoking2
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 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALLEN FIRE
4 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 50
27 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7814 FM 904 FIRE
25 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4907 FIRE
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 3132
24 September 2012Arson/incendiarism16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUNTER FIRE
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePG ROAD FIRE
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceAIRPORT FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yowell in 1 storm report in 2017: 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
August 2017Flash FloodYowell-Delta County Sheriff's Department reported that part of FM 2068 was closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
Needmore1.8 miles9
Jot-Em-Down2.6 miles9
Gough3.2 miles9
Antioch3.9 miles9
West Delta4.2 miles9
Klondike5.5 miles9
Horton6.1 miles9
Pecan Gap6.4 miles9

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 Q122540246The 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 1380811. 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.