Bassett, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Dalby Springs-Simms census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75574. It stands on Kruse Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bassett quadrangle. It stands 269 feet above sea level.

Bassett within Bowie 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.

1930 USGS Bassett quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Bassett quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Bassett between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,308 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 21 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
Debris and open burning	101
Arson/incendiarism	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
9 September 1999	Natural	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	561
30 September 1994	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 September 2002	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 177
28 September 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 464
27 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bassett in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 4 hail, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
November 2022	Tornado (EF3)	Bassett	$7,000,000	The supercell thunderstorm which produced a second tornado ending in northwestern Cass County continued on to the northeast and produced another tornado just north of the Sulphur River in southwestern Bowie County. This tornado was determined to be the strongest one produced by this particular thunderstorm and generated a few spots of low end EF-3 damage in several locations along its nearly 16-mile long path, with estimated maximum winds near 140 mph. This tornado first touched down along U.S. Highway 67 to the southwest of Simms and quickly grew in strength and width after tracking a few miles, briefing reaching a width of nearly a half mile at times. Just west of Simms and continuing northeast just past FM-561, the tornado produced many instances of EF-2 damage to both trees and structures. As the tornado crossed FM-561, there were several structures, a few well built, which had roofs and many walls removed, with 140 mph winds estimated here which were just inside the EF-3 threshold. Additionally, near this structural damage, there was a small section of asphalt road removed from FM-561 and the road debris was thrown into one residence. From there, the tornado then tracked northeast nearly four miles through very rural and uninhabited areas west of Texas Highway 98. The tornado finally moved back over Highway 98 and produced another area of considerable damage at the intersection of Highway 98 and CR-1840. In this area, several structures were largely destroyed, including a few small retail buildings, and this again garnered some high end EF-2 and low end EF-3 ratings with no injuries. After this point, the tornado travelled its final seven miles by crossing the southwestern, then western, and then northern portions of the city of New Boston, before ending just west of Highway 8 north of Interstate 30. Damage to structures and trees in these areas was mostly EF-1 caliber, although considerable damage to one or two well-built homes on the western side of New Boston did warrant an EF-2 damage rating.
August 2012	Hail	Bassett	-	Nickel size hail was reported on Hwy. 67 and Hwy. 98 near Simms, Texas.
December 1999	Tornado (F0)	Bassett	-	Tornado occurred in rural wooded area. Damage consisted of leaf stripped trees and broken branches.
May 1994	Hail	Bassett	-	Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
June 2007	Hail	Bassett	-	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bassett	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Bassett	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bowie 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Darden	1.6 miles	11
Siloam	3.3 miles	11
Simms	3.7 miles	11
Ward Creek	5.0 miles	11
Old Union	5.3 miles	13
Carbondale	6.3 miles	13
Dalby Springs	7.2 miles	11
College Hill	7.4 miles	11

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 Bassett	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113987457	The 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 1372411. 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.