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Berclair, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Goliad South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78107. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berclair quadrangle. It stands 190 feet above sea level.

Berclair within Goliad County

On record in Berclair

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Berclair between 2006 and 2017, burning about 362 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 burning9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
15 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2017Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-40
5 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGOLIAD
4 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
13 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service08122011-MOCZYGEMBA
8 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service07082011-WILKERSON RD.
24 July 2016Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16-09
12 June 2009Smoking4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Goliad County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berclair in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBerclair-Spotter reported multiple large trees snapped near Farm to Market Road 883. Small hail occurred also.
June 2019HailBerclair-Quarter sized hail occurred at the Berclair Country Store.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindBerclair-Goliad Auxiliary Field ASOS measured a gust to 62 mph.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindBerclair-Goliad Outlying Field ASOS measured a gust to 61 mph.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindBerclair-ASOS site at Navy Outlying Field Goliad measured a gust to 58 mph.
March 2007HailBerclair-Golfball sized hail was reported 10 miles souhtwest of Goliad, on U.S. 59.
September 2002Flash FloodBerclair-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBerclair-no account filed
June 1998HailBerclair-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBerclair-no account filed
June 1996HailBerclair-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindBerclair-no account filed
April 1995HailBerclair-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Goliad 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
Sarco10.1 miles8
Riverdale10.1 miles7
Melo11.1 miles8
Angel City13.1 miles7
Goliad14.3 miles8
Charco14.5 miles7
O'Donnell Place14.9 miles8
Scurlock18.0 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 BerclairAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4891113The 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 1351901. 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.