BlockBorden, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Weimar census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78962. The Survey maps it on the Borden quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Glidden quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Borden quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Borden in 2011, burning about 85 acres in total. None 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 | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 January 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROBERT HENDERSON |
| 28 January 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LEROY JANECKA |
| 25 January 2011 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MALVIN OTTO |
| 22 January 2011 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BALEN FISBECK |
| 21 January 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNKNOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Borden: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Borden in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2010: 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Borden | $25,000 | Tree down on FM 109 with roof damage to barn. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Borden | $10,000 | Strong winds collapsed one barn roof along County Road 210 and damaged another barn along FM 2434. There were numerous reports of trees downed over roadways along County Road 215 near the entrance of Oakridge Ranch and County Road 213. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weimar | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Shaws Bend | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| New Bielau | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Glidden | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Hillcrest | 6.7 miles | 10 | |
| Columbus | 8.7 miles | 10 | |
| Oakland | 9.2 miles | 10 | |
| Helms | 10.9 miles | 10 |
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 Borden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4944472 | 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 1378033. 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.