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Bland Lake, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the San Augustine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75935. The Survey maps it on the San Augustine East quadrangle.

Bland Lake within San Augustine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Bland Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 677 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
19 September 2013Arson/incendiarism18 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7129
16 September 2013Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7127
15 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 604
9 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 473
8 August 1992Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1992Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7076

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Augustine County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bland Lake in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 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 2012Tornado (EF0)Bland Lake$10,000An EF0 tornado touched down 5 miles northwest of San Augustine, Tx. and tracked north northeast before lifting just south of the San Augustine/Shelby County Texas line. The initial touchdown was just east of Hwy. 96 and west of FMm 3230 where a larger tree was uprooted. Large limbs and tin from a chicken house was peeled back near FM. 1279. The path width was 50 yards wide with a path length of near 4 miles. Maximum winds were estimated near 70 mph.
June 2025HailBland Lake-Ping pong ball size hail reported near Bland Lake.
October 2013Flash FloodBland Lake-FM. 1277 about a half mile south of Spur 85 was closed due to flooding. FM. 3230 two miles north of San Augustine was also flooded.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindBland Lake-A tree was downed just north of town.

Every storm recorded in San Augustine 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
Calgary1.9 miles12
Redland3.8 miles11
San Augustine4.2 miles12
Harmony4.3 miles11
Lanetown4.3 miles12
White Rock4.7 miles12
Sunrise5.8 miles12
Union6.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381456. 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.