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Bowser, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Richland Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76872. It stands on Sand Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bowser quadrangle.

Bowser within San Saba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

61 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Bowser between 2004 and 2020, burning about 1,400 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use21
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1
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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE 2
7 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILLBARKER
4 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGOSSETT
30 September 2011Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARLISLE
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMILLER
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceELM GROVE FIRE
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNK
13 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 45

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Saba County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bowser in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 hail. 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 2019HailBowser-Lots of dime size hail and strong winds of at least 50 mph were reported.

Every storm recorded in San Saba 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
Skeeterville3.6 miles14
Locker4.0 miles15
Holt4.3 miles14
Elm Grove5.2 miles15
Spring Creek8.3 miles14
Richland Springs9.4 miles14
Hall9.6 miles14
Algerita13.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379449. 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.