Bluegrove, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Henrietta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76365. The Survey maps it on the Bluegrove quadrangle. It stands 997 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Bluegrove quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
68 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Bluegrove between 1996 and 2020, burning about 14,896 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRYAN EDWARDS ROAD |
| 9 September 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OLD JOY SHANNON FIRE |
| 6 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 90906 |
| 27 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CHAPMAN RD GRASS FIRE |
| 2 September 2018 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SANZENBACHER RANCH |
| 18 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
40 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bluegrove in 40 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 28 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bluegrove | $10,000 | Power lines and a highway sign were blown down near Midway School. Other tree damage was reported over Highway 148. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bluegrove | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bluegrove | $4,000 | Trees were downed over Highway 148. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Bluegrove | $2,000 | This tornado was observed by storm spotters and chasers including off-duty NWS meteorologists. Trees were snapped along FM-1883 west of the community of Deer Creek. Otherwise the specific path was estimated. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bluegrove | $2,000 | Several barn doors blown out. Tree damage. Tiime estimated by radar. |
| May 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Bluegrove | $750 | A citizen reported a brief tornado on the FM 172 bridge south of Lake Arrowhead. One picnic shelter in a park was destroyed. |
| April 2026 | Tornado (EFU) | Bluegrove | - | Storm chasers observed a tornado northeast of Windthorst and west-southwest of Bluegrove. This tornado occurred over open rangeland and no specific damage was reported. The tornado path is estimated. |
| April 2026 | Tornado (EFU) | Bluegrove | - | Soon after the previous tornado dissipated, storm spotters and chasers observed another tornado that developed in the same area. This tornado became a large tornado and moved very slowly. KFDR radar data suggests that it may have moved in a loop, but the tornado occurred over open rangeland and no specific damage was reported so the tornado path is estimated. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | The location is approximate, and the event time is estimated based on radar observations. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | The location is approximate. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | The report was relayed by amateur radio. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | The report was relayed through mPING. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | Hail size increased from quarter-size to golf ball-size between 1753 to 1756 LST. The report was relayed by amateur radio. The location is approximate. |
| June 2016 | Flood | Bluegrove | - | Texas department of transportation reported highway 1883 was closed due to flooding. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bluegrove | - | A trailer house was damaged, with another trailer home blown over. Monetary damage estimates were not available. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bluegrove | - | A carport was destroyed at 7th and Franklin. Another home sustained damage. Monetary damage estimates were not available. |
| May 1997 | Flash Flood | Bluegrove | - | Flash flood waters flowed 4 feet deep over the FM 172 bridge across Deer Creek (about 2.5 miles west of Bluegrove). Several cars became stranded in high water on FM 172 between Bluegrove and Lake Arrowhead, and officials rescued at least 2 people from their flooded cars. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | Thunderstorms in the western part of North Texas during the evening hours on the 25th produced one tornado, hail up to two inches in diameter and damaging winds. A tornado touched down two miles north of Quanah at 1815 CST. The F0 tornado occurred in an open field and no damage was reported. Thunderstorm winds estimated at 100 mph in combination with two inch diameter hail destroyed a 20 x 20 foot storage building, damaged a satellite dish and several homes, broke windows, downed fences and telephone poles, stripped bark from trees and destroyed the cotton and watermelon crops 4.5 miles north-northeast of Quanah. Thunderstorm winds damaged roofs and knocked down trees and transformers in Quanah, tore the roofs off of several barns just east of Quanah, knocked down the front of a store and severely damaged the roof, downed numerous trees and tree limbs and damaged railroad crossing gates in Chillicothe, damaged the roof and a door of a doctors clinic in Vernon and downed tree limbs in Benjamin and Odell. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| December 1999 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Bluegrove | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Creek | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| Joy | 6.8 miles | 7 | |
| Halsell | 6.8 miles | 8 | |
| Dickworsham | 8.1 miles | 8 | |
| Buffalo Springs | 9.4 miles | 7 | |
| Frame | 9.7 miles | 8 | |
| Henrietta | 10.1 miles | 8 | |
| Bellevue | 11.7 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.
| Wikipedia article on Bluegrove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4930362 | 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 1352502. 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.



