BlockBainer, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Littlefield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79339. The Survey maps it on the Anton quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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 Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Anton quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Anton SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Anton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Levelland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bainer between 2011 and 2018, burning about 1,124 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 June 2011 | Smoking | 450 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 11-06191 |
| 11 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 45 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BOAZ |
| 26 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS14-11 |
| 13 March 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS14-9 |
| 18 February 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS14-3 |
| 7 January 2011 | Debris and open burning | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 10711 |
| 15 January 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 449 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2015-05 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bainer in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainer | $80,000 | Several trees, fences and about 20 utility poles were damaged. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Bainer | - | A photograph on social media showed tennis ball size hail between Littlefield and Anton along US Highway 84. No damage was reported. |
| March 2019 | Tornado (EFU) | Bainer | - | This is the continuation path of the tornado that began in Hockley County. No damage indicators were available along this segment of the tornado's path, hence the EFU rating. The path was approximated using NWS radar data. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lums Chapel | 5.1 miles | 7 | |
| Littlefield | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| Spade | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Cofferville | 11.3 miles | 9 | |
| Hart Camp | 12.3 miles | 9 | |
| Fieldton | 12.3 miles | 9 | |
| Corry | 13.6 miles | 9 | |
| Amherst | 13.9 miles | 9 |
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 Bainer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q122543927 | 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 1379380. 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.