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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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 Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Buckhorn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
31 since 1999Regional 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 burning | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | EVA RD. FIRE |
| 14 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BELLVILLE/ JASEK |
| 10 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BELLVILLE/ REINCKE |
| 28 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BELLVILLE/ NEUMANN |
| 25 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BELLVILLE/ KIDD |
| 7 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BELLVILLE |
| 3 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BELLVILLE/ OILFIELD |
| 24 July 2013 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ILLEGAL BURN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Buckhorn | 1 killed, $2,300,000 | The 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckhorn | $1,000 | A couple of smaller trees down across road 6 miles NE of Bellville. |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckhorn | - | Mesonet station 124CE116 near Ives Creek measured a 64 mph wind gust. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cochran | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Raccoon Bend | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| Sempronius (historical) | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| Kenney | 6.8 miles | 10 | |
| Bellville | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| New Wehdem | 8.1 miles | 10 | |
| Burleigh | 8.6 miles | 10 | |
| Wehdem | 10.2 miles | 10 |
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 Buckhorn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q110664443 | 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 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.



