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Biardstown, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Biardstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75462. It stands on Click Creek. The Survey maps it on the Biardstown quadrangle.

Biardstown within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

49 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Biardstown between 2006 and 2017, burning about 743 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
4 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1053
18 September 2012Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
13 September 2010Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1055
11 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND FIRE
6 August 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH/GRASS FIRE
5 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use46 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 552
4 August 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Biardstown: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
UnknownLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Biardstown in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2011: 3 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
March 2011HailBiardstown-Quarter size hail fell about 1 mile north of Biardstown.
March 1996HailBiardstown-no account filed
March 1996HailBiardstown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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
Glory1.8 miles11
Frog Hop2.6 miles11
Jennings3.5 miles8
Broadway3.8 miles11
Clardy4.0 miles8
Rockwell4.3 miles11
Rock Ford4.6 miles8
Broadway Junction4.6 miles11

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 Q122596875The 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 1351999. 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.