Bloomburg, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Atlanta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75556. The Survey maps it on the Bloomburg quadrangle. 321 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 315 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBloomburg fell from 404 to 321 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 404 | |
| 2020 | 321 | -83 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1907 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1910 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Bloomburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
264 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Bloomburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,823 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 93 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 burning | 105 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 93 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CASS 21:36 |
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | MIL15019195 |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomburg in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2020: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Bloomburg | $20,000 | Excessive heavy rainfall resulted in water in a home near Bloomberg, Texas. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Bloomburg | - | A photo of half dollar size hail that fell in the New Hope community just south of Bloomburg was posted to social media. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Bloomburg | - | Quarter size hail was reported in the New Hope community south of Bloomburg, Texas. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomburg | - | Trees were downed across FM 4919 south of Bloomburg, Texas. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomburg | - | Trees were downed across FM 3129 near Bloomburg. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Bloomburg | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cass | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Smyrna | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Queen City | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Lanark | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Atlanta | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Springdale | 7.7 miles | 13 | |
| Three States | 8.2 miles | 13 | |
| Domino | 9.3 miles | 19 |
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 Bloomburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982444 | The 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 1330880. 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.






