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Berlin, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Brenham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77833. The Survey maps it on the Brenham quadrangle.

Berlin within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

122 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Berlin between 2006 and 2020, burning about 254 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service290/OLD BURTON ROAD
7 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceF.M 2935
7 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3671 FM 109
3 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service365 SHADY ACRES LANE
29 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service105 LANGE LAKE ROAD
29 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3500 OLD GAY HILL RD
27 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFARMER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berlin in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2015Flash FloodBerlin-Street flooding was reported in and around the Brenham area.
May 2015Flash FloodBerlin-Numerous roads were closed in the Brenham area.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindBerlin-Trees were downed near the intersection of Old Mill Creek Road and South Berlin Road.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBerlin-Trees were downed between Burton and Brenham.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Brenham2.6 miles10
Mill Creek2.7 miles10
Zionville3.2 miles10
Klump4.2 miles10
Muellersville5.4 miles10
Longpoint6.3 miles7
Prairie Hill6.5 miles10
Wiedeville6.5 miles9

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 BerlinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196360The 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 1377995. 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.