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Bernecker, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Roby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79545. It lies near Round Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Bernecker quadrangle.

Bernecker within Fisher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

30 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Bernecker between 2005 and 2020, burning about 16,108 acres in total. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 111 NORTH
28 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2011Natural60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAFTER B FIRE
20 September 2011Natural25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROCKER D FIRE
18 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOWER
7 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFISHER COUNTY MUTUAL AID
29 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY
28 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fisher County

Storms near this place

7 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bernecker in 7 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2024HailBernecker-A storm chaser reported 2 inch diameter hail.
April 2023HailBernecker-A storm chaser reported hen egg size hail 6 miles northwest of Sweetwater.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBernecker-Damaging thunderstorm winds broke large tree branches and blew down a fence.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindBernecker-The Texas Department of Transportation reported large tree limbs down. The limbs were 6 inches in diameter and 3 feet long.
April 2023HailBernecker-no account filed
April 2016Funnel CloudBernecker-no account filed
April 2016HailBernecker-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fisher 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
Gannon4.2 miles12
Claytonville4.2 miles8
Capitola5.6 miles12
Busby8.6 miles12
Palava12.0 miles13
Center12.9 miles12
Longworth13.0 miles12
Sardis13.9 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122569516The 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 1377996. 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.