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Belcherville, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Nocona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76255. The Survey maps it on the Belcherville quadrangle.

Belcherville within Montague County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

119 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Belcherville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,060 acres in total. 6 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 burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use23
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Arson/incendiarism3
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
5 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKIRBY RD.
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2017102
29 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2014064
28 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2020093
27 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2014063
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2010070
23 September 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2009122
23 September 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2009123

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montague County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Belcherville: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
Belcherville-1CopperOccurrence1891

Every working recorded in Montague County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belcherville in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBelcherville$40,000Emergency Management reported several telephone poles were knocked down by thunderstorm winds. The poles were along US Highway 82 between Nocona and Belcherville.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Belcherville$30,000NWS survey crews determined a tornado caused EF-0 damage to a ranch near Belcherville, Texas.
February 2009Tornado (EF0)Belcherville$20,000One home on the south side of Belcherville along FM 1816 sustained roof damage. Multiple outbuildings in the same area were destroyed or suffered extensive damage. Two trees were uprooted, a shed was destroyed, and an empty water tank that was 10 feet in diameter was flipped over. The path of this tornado was estimated to be 100 yards in length. This tornado was rated an EF-0 with estimated winds of 80 mph. This same storm went on to produce a tornado in northern Montague County near Spanish Fort.
February 2009HailBelcherville$8,000Baseball size hail fell near Red River Station.
April 2008HailBelcherville$5,000no account filed
April 2016Thunderstorm WindBelcherville$1,000Severe thunderstorm winds knocked down and split trees on Crenshaw and Crain Road to the north of Belcherville.
April 2017HailBelcherville-Nocona Fire Department reported quarter sized hail approximately 8 miles north of Nocona on Farm to Market Road 1759.
March 2013HailBelcherville-A spotter for a broadcast media station reported quarter sized hail, four miles west of Nocona.
March 2009HailBelcherville-Quarter size hail was observed by a trained spotter 1 mile south of Belcherville and 3 miles west of Nocona.
April 2009HailBelcherville-Quarter size hail was reported approximately 3 miles south of Belcherville.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBelcherville-A large tree was knocked down onto Highway 82 three miles west of Nocona.
April 1998HailBelcherville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montague 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
Nocona5.7 miles10
Ringgold6.0 miles9
Hynds City9.5 miles9
Stoneburg9.9 miles10
Nocona Hills10.2 miles10
Montague11.2 miles10
Rowland12.5 miles9
Bonita13.0 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1351809. 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.