BlockBroadway, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Crosbyton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79322. The Survey maps it on the McAdoo quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 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 Lubbock quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS McAdoo quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Broadway between 2006 and 2018, burning about 524 acres in total. 3 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 use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2011 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WALKER CRP #2 |
| 5 July 2011 | Natural | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DARL WALKER CRP |
| 25 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CAPROCK/82 |
| 14 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCADOO |
| 28 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | US82/CR111 |
| 16 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 10 June 2011 | Natural | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WHEELESS |
| 20 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Broadway in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2016: 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2016 | Hail | Broadway | - | A storm chaser reported quarter size hail. No damage was reported. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Broadway | - | Baseball size hail destroyed thousands of acres of crops. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Broadway | - | 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.
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 Broadway | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q127705270 | 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 1352913. 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.