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Belmena, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Burlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76520. It stands on Terry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ben Arnold quadrangle.

Belmena within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

25 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Belmena between 2006 and 2017, burning about 592 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALDRIDGE FIRE
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAMERON FIRE
15 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution80 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOWARD FIRE
8 July 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN. HWY 77
21 June 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRICHARD KRENEK
16 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJAMES VOGELSANG
16 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVOGELSANG
15 June 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 245 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belmena in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2025Flash FloodBelmena$1,000Emergency management reported FM 485 and FM 979 closed due to flooding.
April 2019Tornado (EFU)Belmena-A brief tornado touchdown occurred approximately 5 miles northeast of the city of Cameron, TX. The tornado was rated EF-0 and lasted less than 30 seconds, producing no known damage.
April 2011HailBelmena-Quarter size hail fell about 4 miles northeast of Cameron.

Every storm recorded in Milam 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
Silver City2.2 miles7
Maysfield3.2 miles7
Splawn4.2 miles7
Marlow4.2 miles8
Quinif4.3 miles7
Cameron5.3 miles8
Jones Prairie5.4 miles7
Ben Arnold5.7 miles7

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 BelmenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122558002The 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 1379405. 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.