Blue Ridge, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Reagan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76661. The Survey maps it on the Kosse West quadrangle. It stands 486 feet above sea level.

Blue Ridge within Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Kosse West quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

25 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Blue Ridge between 2005 and 2017, burning about 490 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 burning	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Natural	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
23 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
28 August 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RICHARDSON STUP FIRE
10 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FIRE
6 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	REKINDLE OF HASH FIRE
2 July 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 211 FIRE
16 July 2012	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SCHNIEDER UNTATTENDED FIRE
6 June 2009	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2159 ACROSS CLOSS RD
5 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	257 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Blue Ridge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Garrett Quarry & Plant	Limestone, General	Producer

Every working recorded in Falls County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Ridge in 1 storm report in 2017: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Blue Ridge	-	Falls County Sheriff's Department reported heavy wind damage along and east of Highway 6, approximately 3 miles southeast of Blue Ridge.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Long Branch	2.7 miles	6
Stranger	3.6 miles	6
Alto Springs	3.8 miles	6
Reagan	4.6 miles	7
Mustang	5.5 miles	6
Sunrise	7.0 miles	7
McClanahan	7.2 miles	7
Beacon	7.5 miles	7

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.

Wikidata item Q34702849

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 1379434. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.