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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.

Bloomburg within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Bloomburg 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.

YearPeople Change
2010404
2020321-83 (-21%)

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

264 since 1992

Regional 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 burning105
Arson/incendiarism93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use13
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking1
Fireworks1
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 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCASS 21:36
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionMIL15019195
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

6 since 2004

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009Flash FloodBloomburg$20,000Excessive heavy rainfall resulted in water in a home near Bloomberg, Texas.
April 2020HailBloomburg-A photo of half dollar size hail that fell in the New Hope community just south of Bloomburg was posted to social media.
April 2015HailBloomburg-Quarter size hail was reported in the New Hope community south of Bloomburg, Texas.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindBloomburg-Trees were downed across FM 4919 south of Bloomburg, Texas.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindBloomburg-Trees were downed across FM 3129 near Bloomburg.
June 2004HailBloomburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Cass4.0 miles12
Smyrna4.4 miles13
Queen City5.0 miles13
Lanark5.7 miles13
Atlanta5.9 miles12
Springdale7.7 miles13
Three States8.2 miles13
Domino9.3 miles19

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 BloomburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982444The 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.