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Berea, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Crockett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75835. The Survey maps it on the Berea quadrangle.

Berea within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

62 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Berea between 1993 and 2019, burning about 5,721 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
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 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2016-260
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011317
9 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 530
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011310
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution4,931 acresLivingston AreaARBOR FIRE
30 September 2011Natural20 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 956
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011292
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011289

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berea in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindBerea$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines between Crockett and Kennard.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBerea$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds downed trees along Highway 21 East.
March 2023HailBerea-The was quarter size hail in the Berea area.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindBerea-Trees were knocked down.
May 2017HailBerea-This storm produced quarter sized hail.
June 2012HailBerea-Hail to the size of half dollars was reported falling along Highway 7 approximately 3 miles east of the Houston County Airport.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Arbor2.9 miles10
Hickory Creek3.1 miles12
Druso4.4 miles10
Center Hill4.6 miles11
Hopewell5.9 miles10
Harrison Town6.6 miles11
Belott6.7 miles12
Shady Grove7.0 miles11

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 BereaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19460489The 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 1381394. 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.