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Barclay, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rosebud census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76656. The Survey maps it on the Westphalia quadrangle. It stands 520 feet above sea level.

Barclay within Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

26 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Barclay between 2005 and 2017, burning about 180 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
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
16 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015-122
4 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 July 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKETTERMAN
30 June 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 53 FIRE
22 June 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHERING JFIRE
7 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 April 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barclay in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBarclay$25,000Strong winds in Barclay broke several power poles, causing a power outage in the community. In additional a large metal barn was nearly destroyed.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBarclay$10,000A barn roof was blown off. Time was estimated by radar.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindBarclay$10,000The roof of the Barclay Community Center was damaged by high wind.
May 2020HailBarclay$6,000Golf ball size hail was reported west of Rosebud.

Every storm recorded in Falls 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
Terry Chapel1.8 miles13
Zipperlandville2.9 miles13
Westphalia2.9 miles13
Wilson4.7 miles13
Rosebud6.9 miles7
Travis7.0 miles13
Durango8.9 miles12
Lott9.6 miles13

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 BarclayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4859921The 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 1351499. 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.