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Barwise, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Floydada census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79241. The Survey maps it on the Barwise quadrangle. It stands 3,245 feet above sea level.

Barwise within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Barwise between 2006 and 2015, burning about 994 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined170 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
29 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHEAT STUBLE FIRE
11 April 2009Natural40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
23 March 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
23 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 February 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
21 February 2015Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barwise in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2002: 6 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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
June 2002Thunderstorm WindBarwise$50,000Strong thunderstorm winds destroyed a large feeder house.
June 2002HailBarwise-The Floyd County Sheriff's office reported golfball size hail. A few hundred acres of cotton were destroyed.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Barwise-A (landspout) tornado was reported by storm spotters just east of Allmon. The tornado was nearly stationary and stayed over open country.
June 2001HailBarwise-Storm spotters reported baseball size hail.
May 2002HailBarwise-no account filed
June 2002HailBarwise-no account filed
February 2000HailBarwise-no account filed
May 2000HailBarwise-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Sandhill2.5 miles7
Harmony3.9 miles7
Allmon8.0 miles7
Muncy8.6 miles7
Lockney9.9 miles7
Aiken10.0 miles7
Floydada10.0 miles8
McCoy10.1 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 BarwiseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4865979The 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 1379394. 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.