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Bateman, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek-Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78662. It stands on Lower Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Red Rock quadrangle.

Bateman within Bastrop County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

136 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Bateman between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,082 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
Debris and open burning73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEPHANIE LN
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGOERTZ
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined130 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 114
3 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service8810 TAYLORSVILLE ROAD
29 September 2008Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service8730 TAYLORSVILLE ROAD
17 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2009-77

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bateman in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBateman-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked trees and fences just inside Bastrop County on FM 672 near St. Johns Colony.
August 2017Flash FloodBateman-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Harvey produced flash flooding leading to a swift water rescue near Cedar Creek.
October 2009Flash FloodBateman-Emergency management reported several roads with high water including portions of FM 535, 812, and FM 20. Some of these roads were closed due to the flooding.
June 1997HailBateman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bastrop 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
Red Rock1.6 miles11
Rockne3.9 miles11
Watterson5.3 miles11
Jordan6.4 miles11
String Prairie8.2 miles11
Cedar Creek9.5 miles17
Clearview9.7 miles17
Rosanky9.7 miles11

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 BatemanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4868759The 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 1379396. 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.