Bagwell, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Detroit census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75426. The Survey maps it on the Bagwell quadrangle. It stands 476 feet above sea level.

Bagwell within Red River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Bagwell quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

158 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Bagwell between 1995 and 2020, burning about 2,054 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 30 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	70
Arson/incendiarism	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Natural	7
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2004	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 138
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BLACK
5 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 367
3 September 2005	Smoking	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ETMC
14 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WEAR
13 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	55 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 368

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red River County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bagwell in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 hail, 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
March 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Bagwell	$400,000	The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey in Red River County, Texas, and concluded that storm damage was the result of an EF1 tornado. The tornado touched down at around 515 pm CST, approximately 8 miles west of Clarksville, Texas, along U.S. Hwy. 82 where it knocked down several small trees. The tornado tracked east-northeast crossing CR 2123 where it damaged several trees. It then crossed CR 2161 northwest of Clarksville damaging trees along the road. The damage up to CR 2161 was all EF0. Once the tornado reached the north side of Clarksville, it intensified and widened to its widest point. The tornado crossed through a neighborhood north of Clarksville on the west side of Hwy. 37 where approximately a dozen homes sustained minor damage to their roofs, awnings, or carports. Numerous trees were snapped or damaged as well. Just north of the neighborhood at a business, a FEMA trailer was completely destroyed with insulation and pieces of the trailer strewn northeast and east. On the east side of Hwy. 37, numerous powerpoles were snapped, a semi tractor trailer was overturned onto a small pickup, and a home sustained moderate damage to the roof. The tornado continued east-northeast crossing FM 1159 and CR 1700. The tornado continued east, north of CR 1700, damaging trees before lifting east of CR 3202. The tornado was on the ground for nearly 11 miles and a total of approximately 20 minutes. Maximum winds were estimated at 80-90 mph. The maximum width of the tornado was 225 yards wide.
March 2022	Tornado (EF1)	Bagwell	$25,000	An EF-1 tornado, with estimated maximum winds near 95 mph, touched down off of FM 2573 just southeast of the Bagwell community. There, it ripped metal panels off of a barn and topped a softwood tree. Metal pieces of the barn and tree branches were thrown as far as 300 yards. The tornado continued to down trees along two properties just off of County Road 2110. Another barn's roof was damaged and shingle damage was observed to a single family home before it crossed County Road 2110. The tornado downed a few more trees north of County Road 2110 before lifting north of the roadway. It is estimated that around 20 hardwood and softwood trees were downed from this tornado.
November 2015	Flash Flood	Bagwell	$10,000	A truck was was stranded in high water on CR. 2149 near the Bagwell, Texas community.
March 2022	Hail	Bagwell	-	Half dollar size hail fell in the Bagwell community.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bagwell	-	A number of homes lost shingles and siding near the Bagwell community. Approximately a half mile of power poles were flattened along Farm to Market Road 2573. Several trees were snapped and uprooted as well.
May 2016	Hail	Bagwell	-	Ten minutes of continuous hen egg to golf ball size hail was reported in the Bagwell community.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Bagwell	-	A tree was downed over County Road 2104 west northwest of Clarksville, Texas.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bagwell	-	Trees down on CR 2237 in the community of Bagwell.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Bagwell	-	Several large trees down.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bagwell	-	Several large trees down.

Every storm recorded in Red River 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mabry	4.0 miles	8
Batesville	4.5 miles	8
Midway	4.6 miles	8
Liberty	5.0 miles	8
Detroit	5.6 miles	8
Dimple	5.9 miles	8
McCoy	6.2 miles	8
Cross Road	6.5 miles	8

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 Bagwell	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4842186	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 1351403. 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.