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Bainville, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kenedy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78119. The Survey maps it on the Monteola quadrangle.

Bainville within Karnes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

45 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Bainville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,129 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJERRY ZINSITZ
26 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJIMMY VILLARREAL
8 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePUMPCO
31 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE ON SIDE OF ROAD
30 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTXDOT - TX72 AT CR182
29 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROBERT HORNEE
26 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLB HAILEY FAMILY TRUST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Karnes County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bainville in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2012: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2009Thunderstorm WindBainville$50,000Several power poles were blown down by thunderstorm winds near El Oso.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBainville$1,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 45 mph that knocked down several tree limbs southwest and west of Kenedy. This storm also produced half inch hail. This storm also knocked down tree limbs 15 miles west of Kenedy.

Every storm recorded in Karnes 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
Green3.2 miles9
El Oso3.8 miles9
Lenz3.9 miles8
Zunkerville4.0 miles10
Kenedy6.8 miles9
Burnell6.9 miles9
Coy City7.9 miles11
Karnes City9.8 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379381. 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.