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Bettie, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Bettie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75644. It stands on Poor Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bettie quadrangle. It stands 335 feet above sea level.

Bettie within Upshur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 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

560 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 560 fires within 5 miles of Bettie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,607 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 21 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 burning384
Missing data/not specified/undetermined80
Natural21
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use18
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2012Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6237
9 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12-263
8 September 2015Natural6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15-0282
8 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 640
8 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 229
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12-261
7 September 2000Smoking4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 382
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service11-375

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upshur County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bettie in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
October 2005Thunderstorm WindBettie$25,000Roof was completely blown off a home in town.
April 2025Tornado (EF1)Bettie-An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 95 mph touched down between the Union Hill and Delrose communities as the previous long track tornado occluded just northeast of Lake Gilmer. A few hardwood and softwood trees were snapped and uprooted along this brief track between Chipmunk and Bear Roads, before lifting prior to reaching Highway 271 shortly before reaching the Bettie community.
March 2010HailBettie-Hail was reported in Bettie, Texas.
October 2010HailBettie-no account filed
May 2003HailBettie-no account filed
March 2000HailBettie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Upshur 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
Union Hill1.1 miles12
Delrose1.6 miles12
Bethlehem2.4 miles12
Concord2.9 miles12
Midway3.4 miles12
Lone Pine3.8 miles12
Friendship4.0 miles12
Ewell4.4 miles12

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 Q131309143The 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 1330540. 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.