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Bee House, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Evant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76528. The Survey maps it on the Pearl quadrangle. It stands 1,178 feet above sea level.

Bee House within Coryell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

159 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Bee House between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,988 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning122
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
9 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCC
4 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCC
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service501 CROMEANS RD
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCC
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCUMMINGS FIRE
30 September 2011Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCC
30 September 2011Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBEAR BRANCH RD FIRE
27 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5010 CR 139

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bee House in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2010Flash FloodBee House$300,000Highway 190 east of Copperas Cove, Farm-to-Market Road 1829 at Highway 236, and several other roads throughout the county were closed due to high water. There was one high water rescue on County Road 132 just off of Farm-to-Market Road 1783. A few homes around the county were damaged when flood waters entered the homes.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBee House$25,000Several homes suffered roof damage in downtown Evant due to high winds. The metal roof of the old firehouse was torn off and several large trees were also knocked down.
June 2014HailBee House$20,000Quarter to hen egg sized hail was reported in Evant over a ten minute period.
May 2011HailBee House$12,000Baseball sized hail fell in Evant.
June 2009HailBee House$10,000Hail up to Tennis Ball size was covering the ground in Evant.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBee House$1,000A homeowner on Self Road between Pearl and Izoro reported damage to many trees on their property. In her words: One large live oak and two large elms were completely knocked down, many large limbs and the tops of many trees were ripped off, a massive cedar looked like the top was twisted off..
May 2024Flash FloodBee House-Emergency management reported several county roads were flooded on the western side of Coryell County.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBee House-A trained spotter reported multiple trees down approximately 1 mile west of the city of Evant, TX along Hwy 84.
April 2015HailBee House-Dime to quarter sized hail with heavy rain was reported in Evant.
June 2014HailBee House-Penny sized hail was reported south of Evant between US 281 and FM 183.
June 2014HailBee House-Ping pong ball sized hail was reported on FM 1690.
May 2013HailBee House-Trained spotters reported nickel to quarter sized hail, approximately 12 miles east of Evant.
January 2010FloodBee House-Numerous roads throughout the county remained closed due to flooding well after the heavy rain had ended.
April 1998Tornado (F0)Bee House-A brief tornado touchdown was reported by Coryell County EOC.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindBee House-no account filed
March 2021HailBee House-no account filed
May 2003HailBee House-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindBee House-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coryell 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
Pearl2.5 miles12
Evant6.3 miles13
Slater7.2 miles16
South Purmela7.4 miles17
Purmela8.4 miles17
King8.9 miles17
Arnett10.5 miles17
Levita12.8 miles11

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 Bee HouseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710326The 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 1351771. 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.