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Baxter, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the LaRue-Poynor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75770. The Survey maps it on the Leagueville quadrangle. It stands 499 feet above sea level.

Baxter within Henderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Baxter between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,015 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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 burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service909092
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service0908173 PASTUR FIRE W/ EUSTACE
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2014Debris and open burning60 acresTexas A & M Forest Service0927141 TREE FARM & GRASS FIRE
27 September 1997Debris and open burning12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.2 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJAMES RAY
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3 MILE HILL
18 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Baxter: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baxter in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 4 hail. 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 2018HailBaxter$5,000Ping pong ball size hail reported by spotter on 175 south of Athens.
April 2026HailBaxter-Quarter sized hail was reported by an amateur radio operator 3 miles NW of Larue.
April 1996HailBaxter-no account filed
May 1994HailBaxter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
Pine Grove3.4 miles16
New York4.2 miles15
Virginia Hill4.5 miles16
LaRue5.3 miles15
Athens6.2 miles16
Leagueville6.6 miles15
Murchison7.6 miles13
Shady Oaks8.9 miles15

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 BaxterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076406The 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 1377976. 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.