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Barksdale, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rocksprings South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78828. The Survey maps it on the Camp Wood quadrangle. 91 people lived here at the 2020 count.

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Barksdale within Edwards County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

36 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Barksdale between 2005 and 2017, burning about 390 acres in total. None 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 burning13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURLESON
4 August 2008Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCDONALD ROAD
30 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAMP FAUCET
3 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 July 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHITLOCK
3 June 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Edwards County

Storms near this place

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barksdale in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 10 hail, 10 flash flood, 3 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
November 2001Thunderstorm WindBarksdale$100,000Severe thunderstorm winds damaged homes and barns and knocked over trees both east and west of Barksdale, in both Edwards and Real Counties.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindBarksdale$30,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines between Barksdale in Edwards County and Camp Wood in Real County.Real County
June 2003Flash FloodBarksdale$5,000Showers and thunderstorms over Gillespie and Kerr Counties continued to spread southwestward into the Edwards Plateau through the early morning hours. Rainfall continued shortly past sunrise, with amounts of 2 to 3 inches over Real and Edwards Counties and northern Uvalde County. Up to 4 inches of rain was reported between Barksdale and Camp Wood along the Edwards-Real line. Flash flooding developed in and around the two towns near 0500CST, with FM337 and SH55 closed.
April 2026HailBarksdale-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail north of Barksdale.
April 2026HailBarksdale-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail north of Barksdale.
April 2026HailBarksdale-A thunderstorm produced chicken egg size hail in Barksdale.
October 2023Flash FloodBarksdale-Thunderstorms produced locally heavy rain that led to flash flooding sending three feet of water over RM 335 near and downstream of the Ben Williams crossing on the Nueces River.
August 2022Flash FloodBarksdale-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding in Edwards County along the Nueces River. A video on social media showed swiftly flowing water through a low water crossing on Dry Creek Rd. near Barksdale.
August 2022Flash FloodBarksdale-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding in Edwards County. The Edwards County Sheriff's Office reported several low water crossings on Hwy 55 near Barksdale were flooded and impassable.
March 2021HailBarksdale-A thunderstorm produced 1.5 to 2.0 inch diameter hail in Barksdale. The hail fell for about five minutes.
August 2021Flash FloodBarksdale-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. FM 335 was flooded near the Nueces River north of Barksdale.
October 2018Flash FloodBarksdale-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing RR 335 along the Nueces River north of Barksdale.
May 2014HailBarksdale-A thunderstorm produced hail that covered the ground. The largest hail was one inch.
March 2007Flash FloodBarksdale-Thunderstorms from Brackettville through the extreme northwestern corner of Uvalde County and into the Barksdale and Camp Wood areas produced between 3 and 5 inches of rain in the early morning hours. SH55 and FM335 were reported to be closed due to high water.
October 2006Flash FloodBarksdale-Rainfall over the northwest corner of Edwards County averaged around 1 inch, with isolated totals of up to 4 inches. SH55 was closed due to flash flooding about 20 miles northwest of Rocksprings.
April 2004Flash FloodBarksdale-Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fells in the Barksdale area, closing SH55 due to flash flooding. Two persons were rescued from a flooded vehicle just south of Barksdale.
January 2017HailBarksdale-no account filed
April 2013HailBarksdale-no account filed
May 2009HailBarksdale-no account filed
April 1997HailBarksdale-no account filed
September 1996Flash FloodBarksdale-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBarksdale-no account filed
June 1995HailBarksdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Edwards 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
Hackberry14.0 miles12
Rocksprings22.0 miles12
Carta Valley34.3 miles7

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 BarksdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4861113The 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 1330049. 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.