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Barnhart, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mertzon South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76930. The Survey maps it on the Barnhart quadrangle. It stands 2,559 feet above sea level.

Barnhart within Irion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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

23 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Barnhart between 2006 and 2020, burning about 3,156 acres in total. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
2 September 2010Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTEE PEE DRAW 67
1 September 2020Natural192 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAD #1
27 August 2009Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHINDE TEEPEE DRAW
28 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1,300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUNSON ROAD COMPLEX
9 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 June 2010Natural50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINTHUCUM
27 June 2010Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 302
20 June 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Irion County

Storms near this place

31 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnhart in 31 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 18 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 2007HailBarnhart$15,000Golfball Size hail damaged windows and homes.
June 2007HailBarnhart$9,000no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBarnhart-A storm chaser reported a wind gust of 70 mph.
May 2024HailBarnhart-A storm chaser reported baseball size hail 6 miles north of Barnhart.
May 2021Flash FloodBarnhart-The Irion County Sheriff's Office reported numerous locations along FM 163 north of Barnhart under water with debris floating in the roadway. Flooding was also reported on CR 401 and CR 131.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBarnhart-The Texas Department of Transportation reported power lines blown down at the intersection of FM 2469 and Texas Highway 163.
May 2018HailBarnhart-Texas Department of Transportation reported hail up to two feet deep at the intersection of FM 2469 and State Highway 163. Most of the hail was the size of a nickel, but there was lots of it. The Sheriff reported hail boulders and a porta-potty floating in the ditch.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBarnhart-A trained spotter reported 70 mph winds in Barnhart.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindBarnhart-A security officer reported two power poles blown down and power outages on the Rocker B Ranch, near County Road 401 and Highway 163.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindBarnhart-The public reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph in Barnhart.
April 2014HailBarnhart-The Barnhart fire department reported half-dollar size hail in Barnhart. A possible funnel cloud was also observed.
May 2012Flash FloodBarnhart-Irion County dispatch reported U.S. Highway 67 located west of Barnhart was flooded.
May 2012Flash FloodBarnhart-Irion County dispatch reported flooding on Ranch Road 2469.
April 2001Flash FloodBarnhart-Heavy rainfall of 2 to 4 inches caused brief flash flooding across western Irion County, forcing the closure of State Highway 163.
April 2000Tornado (F0)Barnhart-A tornado briefly touched down in open county northeast of Barnhart. No damage was reported.
May 2016HailBarnhart-no account filed
May 2015HailBarnhart-no account filed
December 2015HailBarnhart-no account filed
April 2014HailBarnhart-no account filed
June 2007HailBarnhart-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBarnhart-no account filed
April 2006HailBarnhart-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBarnhart-no account filed
March 2002HailBarnhart-no account filed
April 2002HailBarnhart-no account filed
April 2001HailBarnhart-no account filed
April 2001HailBarnhart-no account filed
April 2001HailBarnhart-no account filed
April 1999HailBarnhart-no account filed
June 1997HailBarnhart-no account filed
May 1996Tornado (F0)Barnhart-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Irion 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
Suggs5.0 miles8
Noelke12.9 miles13
Old Burk Place19.7 miles9
Mertzon20.9 miles13
Sherwood22.5 miles13
Old Freitag Place23.0 miles9
Arden30.5 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 BarnhartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4861828The 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 1351533. 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.