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Beulah, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Groesbeck census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76642. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thornton quadrangle.

Beulah within Limestone 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

87 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Beulah between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,286 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning26
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1246 & LCR 758
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined65 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH RUSK ST
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9192
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9193
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9191
18 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service918201702
10 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service910201701
31 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8313

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Beulah: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beulah in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBeulah-Groesbeck FD reported trees down along CR 633 north of Thornton, TX.
April 2002HailBeulah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Red Hill2.9 miles6
Davis Prairie2.9 miles6
Thornton3.4 miles6
Box Church3.5 miles7
Groesbeck4.7 miles8
Pleasant Grove4.9 miles6
Big Hill6.5 miles6
Fort Parker7.3 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379415. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.