Bernstein, Texas
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gruver census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79081. The Survey maps it on the Bernstein quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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 Perryton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Perryton quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Bernstein quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Spearman quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Bernstein between 2006 and 2016, burning about 1,619 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VINNAMAN |
| 19 September 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VENNEMAN #2 |
| 8 August 2011 | Natural | 250 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GOODALL LIGHTENING FIRE |
| 22 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NE 207 FIRE |
| 13 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SPIVEY GRASS FIRE |
| 17 March 2006 | Natural | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 February 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 1261 2 MILES N OF CO RD 2535 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bernstein in 2 storm reports in 1993: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1993 | Hail | Bernstein | $50,000 | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | Bernstein | - | 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 Q122540677 | 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 1379410. 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.



