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Ben Arnold, 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 76519. The Survey maps it on the Ben Arnold quadrangle.

Ben Arnold 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

35 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Ben Arnold between 2006 and 2018, burning about 297 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
Equipment and vehicle use16
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2013Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 July 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN. HWY 77
6 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use45 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 133
2 July 2013Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHALIBURTON FIRE
2 July 2013Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
18 July 2013Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBEN ARNOLD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ben Arnold in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
March 2014Thunderstorm WindBen Arnold$3,000Windows were blown out of one side of a house in Ben Arnold.
July 2025Flash FloodBen Arnold-Law enforcement reported that County Road 134 located of north of Ben Arnold was closed due to flooding.
March 2014HailBen Arnold-no account filed
January 1998HailBen Arnold-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindBen Arnold-no account filed

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
Splawn3.0 miles7
Burlington3.6 miles7
North Elm3.9 miles14
Clarkson4.0 miles7
Silver City4.2 miles7
Yarrelton5.0 miles14
New Clarkson5.3 miles7
Belmena5.7 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1351865. 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.