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Blackfoot, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Montalba-Tennessee Colony census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75853. The Survey maps it on the Blackfoot quadrangle. It stands 390 feet above sea level.

Blackfoot within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

101 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Blackfoot between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,190 acres in total. 6 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 burning53
Equipment and vehicle use23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 September 1997Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2012Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7123
30 September 2017Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7133
29 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRADFORDVFD
28 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service466
14 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePIERCE
14 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blackfoot in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2013: 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 2013Flash FloodBlackfoot-Anderson County Emergency Management reported several roads underwater and impassible due to locally heavy rainfall.
March 2012FloodBlackfoot-Many roads across the county were closed overnight due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Ward3.2 miles12
Springfield3.2 miles12
Bois d'Arc4.4 miles12
Bradford4.7 miles12
Bethel4.9 miles12
Montalba7.3 miles13
Cayuga7.4 miles12
Tennessee Colony7.6 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.

Wikipedia article on BlackfootAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076415The 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 1379426. 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.