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Baldwin, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Waskom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75661. It stands on Beckum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Karnack quadrangle.

Baldwin within Harrison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

146 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Baldwin between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,815 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 9 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 burning59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Natural15
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 564
7 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution42 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 560
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 375
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,036 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePETERS CHAPEL FIRE
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEAN RICHARSON
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1,048 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOOT WALKER FIRE
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2004Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 184

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baldwin in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2016: 1 tornado, 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
March 2016Flash FloodBaldwin-High water was reported flowing over FM 134 in Karnack, Texas.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Baldwin-A strong cyclic supercell moved eastward across the county. This supercell had a history of producing a long track tornado to the west in northeast Texas, specifically Wood, Upshur, Harrison, and Marion Counties and Lincoln and Union Parish in north central Louisiana. Damage was confined to snapped and pushed over trees. No structures were present. This tornado continued into Marion County, TX and Caddo Parish, LA.

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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
Pope City4.1 miles13
Karnack4.3 miles14
Uncertain6.0 miles15
Woodlawn6.5 miles13
Gainesville7.6 miles12
South Shore8.4 miles15
Leigh8.9 miles14
Swansons Landing9.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377970. 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.