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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.

Bluegrove within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

68 since 1996

Regional 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/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRYAN EDWARDS ROAD
9 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD JOY SHANNON FIRE
6 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service90906
27 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHAPMAN RD GRASS FIRE
2 September 2018Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSANZENBACHER RANCH
18 September 2007Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

40 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBluegrove$10,000Power lines and a highway sign were blown down near Midway School. Other tree damage was reported over Highway 148. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindBluegrove$5,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBluegrove$4,000Trees were downed over Highway 148. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 2024Tornado (EF1)Bluegrove$2,000This 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 2018Thunderstorm WindBluegrove$2,000Several barn doors blown out. Tree damage. Tiime estimated by radar.
May 1997Tornado (F0)Bluegrove$750A citizen reported a brief tornado on the FM 172 bridge south of Lake Arrowhead. One picnic shelter in a park was destroyed.
April 2026Tornado (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 2026Tornado (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 2026HailBluegrove-The location is approximate, and the event time is estimated based on radar observations.
April 2026HailBluegrove-The location is approximate.
April 2025HailBluegrove-The report was relayed by amateur radio.
May 2025HailBluegrove-The report was relayed through mPING.
June 2025HailBluegrove-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 2016FloodBluegrove-Texas department of transportation reported highway 1883 was closed due to flooding.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBluegrove-A trailer house was damaged, with another trailer home blown over. Monetary damage estimates were not available.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBluegrove-A carport was destroyed at 7th and Franklin. Another home sustained damage. Monetary damage estimates were not available.
May 1997Flash FloodBluegrove-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 1994HailBluegrove-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 2026HailBluegrove-no account filed
May 2025HailBluegrove-no account filed
April 2025HailBluegrove-no account filed
June 2023HailBluegrove-no account filed
May 2023HailBluegrove-no account filed
May 2017HailBluegrove-no account filed
April 2016HailBluegrove-no account filed
April 2013HailBluegrove-no account filed
April 2013HailBluegrove-no account filed
April 2008HailBluegrove-no account filed
June 2004HailBluegrove-no account filed
April 2003HailBluegrove-no account filed
June 2002HailBluegrove-no account filed
May 2001HailBluegrove-no account filed
May 2001HailBluegrove-no account filed
March 1999HailBluegrove-no account filed
December 1999HailBluegrove-no account filed
June 1998HailBluegrove-no account filed
April 1996HailBluegrove-no account filed
June 1996HailBluegrove-no account filed
August 1994HailBluegrove-no account filed
May 1993HailBluegrove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Deer Creek4.0 miles8
Joy6.8 miles7
Halsell6.8 miles8
Dickworsham8.1 miles8
Buffalo Springs9.4 miles7
Frame9.7 miles8
Henrietta10.1 miles8
Bellevue11.7 miles7

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 BluegroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4930362The 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.