Broadway, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Biardstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75462. The Survey maps it on the Biardstown quadrangle.

Broadway within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1903 USGS Paris quadrangle1:125000
1948 USGS Paris quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Paris quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Biardstown quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

31 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Broadway between 2005 and 2016, burning about 536 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	17
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
3 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
11 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDLAND FIRE
6 August 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRASH/GRASS FIRE
5 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	46 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 552
4 August 2013	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS
29 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS
31 July 2012	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Broadway in 1 storm report in 1995: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1995	Hail	Broadway	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Broadway Junction	0.9 miles	11
Frog Hop	2.0 miles	11
Glory	2.0 miles	11
Gadston	2.8 miles	8
Howland	3.6 miles	11
Biardstown	3.8 miles	11
Slabtown	3.9 miles	8
Atlas	4.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1352912. 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.