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Blevins, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Chilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76524. The Survey maps it on the Belfalls quadrangle.

Blevins within Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Blevins between 2006 and 2019, burning about 406 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2011Smoking200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEAKLY
8 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTROY MUT AID FM 935
5 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 July 2016Arson/incendiarism60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 483 DURANGO FIRE
27 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 463
16 May 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blevins in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2003: 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
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBlevins$10,000Light poles at a baseball field blown down.
May 1997HailBlevins-Baseball to softball size hail was reported.
May 1997HailBlevins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Falls 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
Cego2.9 miles12
Durango4.3 miles12
Dott5.2 miles14
Mooreville6.5 miles15
Chilton8.6 miles14
Westphalia8.7 miles13
Lott9.2 miles13
North Prairie10.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1352418. 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.