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Bedias, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Anderson-Bedias census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77831. The Survey maps it on the Bedias quadrangle. 361 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 318 feet above sea level.

Bedias within Grimes County

Population over time

2 figures

Bedias fell from 443 to 361 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010443
2020361-82 (-19%)

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.

Fires near this place

279 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 279 fires within 5 miles of Bedias between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,377 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 5 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 burning201
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural10
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4533 CR 123
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 110 AND CR 165
9 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1977 CR 116
8 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service21485 HWY 90 N
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service23796 CR 119
7 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grimes County

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bedias in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 flash flood, 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Bedias$50,000NWS Storm survey found EF1 tornado damage along a path across portions of northern Grimes and southern Madison counties, generally parallel and to the west of SH 90 between Bedias and Madisonville. Damage included trees downed and uprooted, and there was also some roof damage to a few homes.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindBedias$40,000Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a hay barn, knocked over a silo, and downed some trees on FM 1696.
March 2000Tornado (F0)Bedias$15,000Trees downed from brief tornado touchdown.
January 1999HailBedias$15,000no account filed
August 2005HailBedias$10,000no account filed
December 2002Thunderstorm WindBedias$8,000Wind damage in Bedias.
December 2002Tornado (F0)Bedias$7,000Tornado 2 miles east of Bedias.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBedias$5,000Trees were downed by strong thunderstorm wind gusts near SH-90 and FM 141 near Bedias.
May 1994HailBedias$5,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindBedias$3,000Trees down.
May 2003HailBedias$3,000Nickel size hail.
January 2024Flash FloodBedias-FM 1486 was closed near Garretts Creek.
January 2024Flash FloodBedias-FM 3090 was closed near Rocky Creek.
January 2024Flash FloodBedias-FM 1774 was closed near Caney Creek.
January 2024Flash FloodBedias-FM 362 was closed near Beason Creek.
May 2024Flash FloodBedias-FM 2620 southeast of Bedias was impassable due to flash flooding.
May 2024Flash FloodBedias-FM 1696 to the west of Bedias was made impassable due to flash flooding.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBedias-A large tree was downed across Highway 90 north of Bedias.
June 2015Flash FloodBedias-There were numerous roads closed and impassable across the eastern part of the county.
August 2009HailBedias-A severe thunderstorm produced nickel sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Grimes 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
Cotton4.8 miles10
Iola6.7 miles10
Cross8.5 miles10
Singleton8.5 miles11
Shiro11.7 miles10
Keith12.1 miles8
Roans Prairie13.2 miles10
Carlos14.2 miles10

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 BediasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q931829The 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 1372465. 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.