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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Bernecker quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Snyder quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
30 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 13 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE CR 111 NORTH |
| 28 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 250 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 September 2011 | Natural | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RAFTER B FIRE |
| 20 September 2011 | Natural | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROCKER D FIRE |
| 18 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MOWER |
| 7 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FISHER COUNTY MUTUAL AID |
| 29 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAY |
| 28 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2014Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Hail | Bernecker | - | A storm chaser reported 2 inch diameter hail. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Bernecker | - | A storm chaser reported hen egg size hail 6 miles northwest of Sweetwater. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bernecker | - | Damaging thunderstorm winds broke large tree branches and blew down a fence. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bernecker | - | The Texas Department of Transportation reported large tree limbs down. The limbs were 6 inches in diameter and 3 feet long. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Bernecker | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Bernecker | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Bernecker | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Q122569516 | The 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.



