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Batson, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Saratoga-Batson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77519. The Survey maps it on the Thorson Gully quadrangle. It stands 82 feet above sea level.

Batson within Hardin County

On record in Batson

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Batson between 1992 and 2018, burning about 2,037 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 47 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 burning68
Arson/incendiarism47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
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
30 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2011Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIVINGSTON - 951
26 September 2015Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGALLANDER RANCH
26 September 2008Arson/incendiarism98 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 210
20 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHRASHER PROPERTY
18 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresBig Thicket National ParkBATSON
18 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2000Natural50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 648

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Batson: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Batson Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1903

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Batson in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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
October 2015FloodBatson$250,000As rainwater drained toward Pine Island Bayou and Black Creek flooding continued in south portions of Hardin County for a few days. Around 15 homes flooded in Pinewood Estates while Pine Island Bayou crested.
December 1997Thunderstorm WindBatson$20,000no account filed
January 2024Thunderstorm WindBatson-Power lines downed in Batson.
May 2013HailBatson-Golf ball size sized hail was reported on Highway 105 near Highway 770 southwest of Saratoga. The report was relayed by the Hardin County Sheriffs office.
October 2013Heavy RainBatson-Heavy Rain caused minor flooding of some roadways around Batson including FM770 and around Luberton including Candlestick Drive. Pictures were also sent in via Facebook of minor flooding around Lumberton.
March 2002HailBatson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Rattlesnake Bend3.2 miles13
Saratoga4.8 miles14
Strain8.6 miles13
Thicket10.2 miles14
Hathaway10.7 miles12
Bragg11.9 miles14
Lelavale12.5 miles13
Sour Lake12.8 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 BatsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4869645The 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 1330140. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.