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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.

Bernstein within Hansford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

13 since 2006

Regional 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/distribution5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVINNAMAN
19 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVENNEMAN #2
8 August 2011Natural250 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGOODALL LIGHTENING FIRE
22 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNE 207 FIRE
13 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPIVEY GRASS FIRE
17 March 2006Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1261 2 MILES N OF CO RD 2535

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hansford County

Storms near this place

2 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1993HailBernstein$50,000no account filed
September 1993HailBernstein-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hansford 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
Kimball6.3 miles7
Hitchland7.5 miles6
Phillips Camp9.1 miles6
Gruver9.3 miles6
Hansford13.6 miles6
Spearman16.1 miles7
McKibben18.5 miles6
Morse23.7 miles6

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 Q122540677The 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.