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Bunyan, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dublin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76446. The Survey maps it on the Bunyan quadrangle.

Bunyan within Erath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

183 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Bunyan between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,976 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined67
Equipment and vehicle use23
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 242
6 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHLAND AVE GRASS FIRE
2 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 374 GRASS FIRE
2 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 373 BRUSH FIRE
19 September 2006Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erath County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bunyan in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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 1998Thunderstorm WindBunyan$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and took the roof from a mobile home.
September 2020FloodBunyan-Law enforcement reported widespread instances of low-lying roads being flooded in and around Dublin and much of Erath County.
April 2013HailBunyan-Quarter sized hail was reported on FM 219 between Lingleville and Dublin; about 5 miles north of Dublin.

Every storm recorded in Erath 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
Highland4.4 miles13
Lingleville5.3 miles13
Dublin5.9 miles12
Harbin6.0 miles12
Cottonwood6.8 miles12
Victor7.5 miles13
Stephenville9.3 miles15
Shiloh11.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378072. 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.