BlockBaileyboro, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the South Sand Hills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79347. The Survey maps it on the Baileyboro quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Baileyboro quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Muleshoe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
28 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Baileyboro between 2006 and 2020, burning about 3,996 acres in total. 9 started naturally. None 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/undetermined | 13 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2009 | Natural | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2009068 |
| 14 August 2012 | Natural | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2012050 |
| 14 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 129 acres | Mule Shoe National Wildlife Refuge | BAILEYBORO 2 |
| 12 August 2011 | Natural | 85 acres | Mule Shoe National Wildlife Refuge | BAILEYBORO 123 |
| 5 July 2011 | Natural | 1,000 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011067 |
| 28 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 600 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011075 |
| 2 July 2018 | Natural | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2018100 |
| 8 June 2019 | Natural | 175 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2019068 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baileyboro in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | Hail | Baileyboro | - | A report on mPing indicated tennis ball size hail west of Needmore. No damage was reported. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Baileyboro | - | Multiple storm chasers reported a swath of hail approximately seven to nine miles northwest of Needmore. Hail ranged in sizes from golf ball size to tennis ball size. No damage was reported. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Baileyboro | - | A member of the public reported ping pong ball size hail in rural western Bailey County. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Baileyboro | - | A storm chaser reported hail up to two inches in diameter about nine miles southwest of Muleshoe. No damage was reported. |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | Baileyboro | - | Training thunderstorms over several hours across central Bailey County caused flash flooding mostly along Farm to Market Road 746 west of Texas Highway 214. The next morning water was still over Farm to Market Road 746. |
| September 2004 | Hail | Baileyboro | - | Golfball sized hail was reported by the Bailey County Sheriff's Office. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Baileyboro | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Baileyboro | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Baileyboro | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q111936992 | 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 1379378. 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.