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Buckhorn, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Bellville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77418. The Survey maps it on the Buckhorn quadrangle.

Buckhorn within Austin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

31 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Buckhorn between 1999 and 2019, burning about 183 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 burning19
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
16 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceEVA RD. FIRE
14 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ JASEK
10 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ REINCKE
28 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ NEUMANN
25 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ KIDD
7 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE
3 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ OILFIELD
24 July 2013Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceILLEGAL BURN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Austin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckhorn in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
April 2016Flash FloodBuckhorn1 killed, $2,300,000The following roads either inundated with water and/or closed due to being flooded; FM 2429 south of Bellville, FM 529 and FM 331 east of Bellville. A report at 0309 CST stated that that there were numerous road closures due to flooding across a large part of the county, especially over the central and north part of the county. A female resident drowned when driving into high water on Plumb Creek Road. Damage amounts estimated.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindBuckhorn$1,000A couple of smaller trees down across road 6 miles NE of Bellville.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindBuckhorn-Mesonet station 124CE116 near Ives Creek measured a 64 mph wind gust.

Every storm recorded in Austin 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
Cochran3.8 miles8
Raccoon Bend4.0 miles8
Sempronius (historical)4.8 miles10
Kenney6.8 miles10
Bellville6.8 miles9
New Wehdem8.1 miles10
Burleigh8.6 miles10
Wehdem10.2 miles10

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 BuckhornAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110664443The 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 1378063. 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.