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Bammel, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Northwest Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77090. The Survey maps it on the Spring quadrangle.

Bammel within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

35 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Bammel between 1993 and 2020, burning about 380 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 834
20 August 2011Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 743
8 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE084
24 July 1995Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE084
17 May 1996Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 May 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 400
8 April 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service201115357

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bammel: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Forest Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bammel in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 hail, 4 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
October 2019LightningBammel1 hurtA man was struck by lightning while walking his three dogs. CPR was administered on site and he did survive. The dogs were not harmed.
June 2023LightningBammel$100,000A lightning strike caused a fire at an apartment complex near the 14500 block of Bammel North Houston Road.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindBammel$30,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree on a mobile home and split it in half. Two people were trapped inside, but were rescued without injury.
June 2023LightningBammel$20,000A lightning strike caused a vehicle fire around the 6700 block of Cypresswood Drive near Spring.
July 2017LightningBammel$15,000An apartment fire was caused by a lightning strike.
October 1998Tornado (F0)Bammel$10,000Trees blown down and minor damage to homes.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBammel-Law enforcement reported that a tree had blown down onto a home near Willowbrook.
August 2025HailBammel-Storm spotter reported marble to quarter size hail near FM 1960 and Veterans Memorial Drive.
August 2025HailBammel-An mPING report was received in the area, indicating 1.25 inch hail.
May 2024HailBammel-Ping pong ball sized hail was reported.
April 2020HailBammel-Quarter sized hail was reported.
June 2019HailBammel-Quarter size hail was observed near the intersection of Veterans and Bammel.

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
Bammel Timbers0.3 miles18
Oak Creek Village1.0 miles18
Ponderosa Forest1.1 miles18
Chantilly Woods1.2 miles18
Olde Oaks1.3 miles18
North Forest1.5 miles18
Bammel Forest1.5 miles18
Cypresswood1.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1329997. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.