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Bostick, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Tyler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75708. The Survey maps it on the Tyler North quadrangle. It stands 499 feet above sea level.

Bostick within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

416 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 416 fires within 5 miles of Bostick between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,382 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 25 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 burning239
Missing data/not specified/undetermined83
Arson/incendiarism25
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Smoking14
Recreation and ceremony11
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural5

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 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 September 2019Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMITH 10:35
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6301
8 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6298
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bostick: 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Halite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
American Clay Forming PlantClayProducer
East Tyler Salt DomeHalite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, GeneralOccurrenceAnhydrite, Calcite, Halite
Bell Dredge & PitSilicaProducer
Stricklin Dredge & PitSilicaProducer

Every working recorded in Smith County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bostick in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 3 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBostick-A tree was blown down across Old Longview Road at Morningside Drive.
April 2020HailBostick-Quarter size hail fell on Northeast Loop 323 in Tyler.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindBostick-A tree was blown down at 5170 Country Estates Drive just northeast of Tyler.
May 2015HailBostick-Quarter size hail fell across Highway 271 one-half mile south of Interstate 20.
October 2010HailBostick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Smith 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
Pine Springs0.8 miles15
Tyler2.9 miles16
Shady Grove3.8 miles15
Owentown5.2 miles15
Bascom5.3 miles16
Swan6.0 miles15
Elberta6.7 miles16
Chapel Hill6.8 miles16

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 BostickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076419The 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 1331102. 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.