Beard, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sealy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77474. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Lake NE quadrangle.

Beard within Austin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Eagle Lake NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Beard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,992 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	2
Other causes	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
22 September 1999	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Attwater Prarie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge	SCHINDLER
21 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Attwater Prarie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge	POWERLINE
17 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Attwater Prarie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge	GLUECK WILDFIRE
17 September 1992	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Attwater Prarie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge	TTU1
4 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
17 July 1998	Natural	5.0 acres	Attwater Prarie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge	SANDYRIVER
6 June 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	22 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STREIDER
12 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27 acres	Attwater Prarie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge	MOUND FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Austin 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
Rexville	3.9 miles	10
Sealy	8.7 miles	11
South Frydek	9.9 miles	11
Frydek	10.1 miles	13
Wallis	10.4 miles	11
San Felipe	11.3 miles	13
Brazos Country	11.9 miles	13
Cat Spring	12.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377978. 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.