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Bisbee, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Arlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76063. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield quadrangle. It stands 702 feet above sea level.

Bisbee within Tarrant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

168 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Bisbee between 2005 and 2020, burning about 988 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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/undetermined103
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
9 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMANSFIELD FIRE
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALNUT CREEK FIRE
7 September 2012Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service287 FIRE
7 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCALLENDER RD
24 September 2011Arson/incendiarism15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMITCHELL
23 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPYGLASS FIRE
19 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNEWT PATTERSON
8 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bisbee in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 2 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
March 2016Thunderstorm WindBisbee$5,000Thunderstorm winds were estimated near 65 mph near Russell Curry Rd and Highway 287 in Mansfield.
June 2025HailBisbee-Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.).
June 2025HailBisbee-Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.).

Every storm recorded in Tarrant 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
Watsonville2.8 miles16
Valley Ridge3.4 miles16
Kennedale3.4 miles16
Sublett3.7 miles16
Rendon3.8 miles16
Mansfield3.9 miles16
Retta4.8 miles16
Tate Springs5.0 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on BisbeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076413The 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 1378010. 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.