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Bankersmith, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Comfort census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78624. The Survey maps it on the Cain City quadrangle.

Bankersmith within Kendall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

41 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Bankersmith between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,062 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural1

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
29 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2009Natural221 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBIG HILL
23 August 2016Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCJ RANCH RD
18 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceS BROADWAY
14 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN/A
23 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Kendall County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bankersmith: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, 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
Boenes Pits & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Doebblers QuarryStone, DimensionProducerLimestone

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bankersmith in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2014: 4 hail, 2 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 2007Flash FloodBankersmith-Rain totals of up to 4 inches in just 2 hours caused flash flooding that closed US87 near Bankersmith in the late afternoon.
March 2007Flash FloodBankersmith-Thunderstorms produced rainfall of 2 to 3 inches in northern Kendall County, causing flash flooding that closed FM1376 through the mid afternoon.
April 2014HailBankersmith-no account filed
March 2011HailBankersmith-no account filed
March 2011HailBankersmith-no account filed
March 2003HailBankersmith-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kendall 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
Lindendale10.1 miles11
Comfort11.8 miles10
Sisterdale11.8 miles10
Waring12.1 miles10
Welfare14.2 miles10
Nelson City17.2 miles10
Ammans Crossing17.8 miles10
Walnut Grove18.4 miles12

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 BankersmithAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4856273The 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 1377972. 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.