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Baileyville, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Burlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76570. The Survey maps it on the Baileyville quadrangle.

Baileyville within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

18 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Baileyville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 478 acres in total. None 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4

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
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2016-122
6 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011-095
4 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 267 & CR 270
7 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAILEYVILLE
20 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2016-076
31 May 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baileyville in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBaileyville$10,000A solar farm near Baileyville suffered damage to some solar panels, and trees were reported down in the same area.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-A large tree fell across the road.
April 2016Flash FloodBaileyville-Up to 8 inches of rain resulted in flash flooding in Milam County. A local newspaper reported FM 2027 at Pond Creek was closed due to flooding.
March 2007FloodBaileyville-Flooding occurred on county roads in the northern part of the county due to river flooding.

Every storm recorded in Milam 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
Briary3.4 miles7
New Clarkson5.2 miles7
Jones Prairie6.2 miles7
Crossroads6.4 miles7
Clarkson6.5 miles7
Burlington9.3 miles7
Ben Arnold10.4 miles7
Belmena10.8 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379379. 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.