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Buncome, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Long Branch-Dotson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75633. It stands on Jones Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lake Murvaul quadrangle.

Buncome within Panola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Buncome between 1992 and 2020, burning about 646 acres in total. 6 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 528
7 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 231
28 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 168
24 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6338
22 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Panola County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buncome in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBuncome-A wind gust of 62 mph was recorded the Texas Water Development Board Mesonet site at Lake Murvaul.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindBuncome-Tree reported down on County Road 175.
October 2009Tornado (EF0)Buncome-An EF0 tornado skipped along a path which started along FM 1970 where a couple of trees were uprooted. Numerous trees were snapped near the end of the track along CR 116. The tornado track was approximately 4 miles long and 100 yards wide.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindBuncome-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Panola 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
Daniels2.8 miles13
Gary3.1 miles13
Clayton4.3 miles13
Pleasant Ridge6.1 miles13
Dotson6.4 miles12
Shady Grove6.9 miles13
Delray7.5 miles14
Long Branch7.8 miles12

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 Q122559146The 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 1379475. 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.