BlockBelgrade, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Newton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75928. The Survey maps it on the Bon Wier quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1935 USGS Wilson Lake quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Wilson Lake quadrangle1:31680
- 1952 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Bon Wier quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Bon Wier quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS DeRidder quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
234 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 234 fires within 5 miles of Belgrade between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,604 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 83 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 | 86 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 83 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 187 |
| 5 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 65 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 676 |
| 5 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 673 |
| 5 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 49 |
| 17 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8080 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belgrade in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2020 | Tornado (EF2) | Belgrade | $70,000 | A tornado briefly touched down on FM1416 between Bon Wier and Trout Creek. One home lost a large section of its roof. A large barn had its roof torn off. Several trees were uprooted or snapped. |
| January 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Belgrade | $30,000 | A tornado touched down near the Backwoods Beach community. An eyewitness|watched it move across the lakes before it snapped multiple pine trees|around the beach, blocking roads but missing the buildings. The estimated peak wind was 105 MPH. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belgrade | $2,000 | Numerous power outages occurred after trees and power lines were downed during a storm. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1351815. 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.