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Bunavista, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Borger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79007. The Survey maps it on the Borger quadrangle.

Bunavista within Hutchinson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

250 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Bunavista between 1993 and 2020, burning about 484,565 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 15 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined130
Power generation/transmission/distribution44
Equipment and vehicle use19
Arson/incendiarism15
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Natural10
Debris and open burning8
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
4 September 2009Natural4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIGHTNING
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDCP FIRE
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceEARLS 1559
29 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEST 3RD CEDAR FIRE
24 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceYET AGAIN
20 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUDDY ROAD
2 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHANG'EM HIGH FIRE
18 September 2010Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hutchinson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bunavista: 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Borger Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Baker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Borger Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dees and ParkerSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Hutchinson County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bunavista in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2003: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2003HailBunavista-no account filed
July 1998HailBunavista-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindBunavista-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hutchinson 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
Philrich0.5 miles8
Borger2.8 miles8
Electric City4.3 miles8
Phillips5.1 miles8
Sanford5.7 miles9
Oil City7.3 miles9
Texroy8.1 miles8
Fritch8.3 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122553793The 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 1353303. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.