BlockBazette, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kerens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75144. The Survey maps it on the Bazette quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Bazette quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
141 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Bazette between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,975 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 | 55 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 51 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 27 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1112231 |
| 8 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1212043 |
| 7 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1111947 |
| 4 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 09042010 WILDFIRE |
| 3 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 09032010 WILDFIRE |
| 3 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KERENS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bazette in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2010: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2000 | Tornado (F1) | Bazette | $200,000 | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Bazette | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bazette | $500 | Winds of 65 mph were measured by a CoCoRaHS observer located 3.4 miles northwest of Kerens. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bazette | $500 | Tree limbs were down between Chatfield and Kerens. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Bazette | - | Half Dollar Sized hail was reported 3 miles northwest of Kerens. |
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q122566118 | 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 1377977. 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.