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Burkett, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Coleman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76828. It stands on Deadman Branch. The Survey maps it on the Burkett quadrangle. It stands 1,558 feet above sea level.

Burkett within Coleman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

61 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Burkett between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,144 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Natural2

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
5 September 2011Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY RD 149 FIRE
1 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 122 MUTUAL AID
31 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2009Natural400 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURKETT
23 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2006Natural6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coleman County

Storms near this place

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burkett in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 16 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1995Tornado (F0)Burkett$60,000A tornado touched down on Farm-to-Market Road 586 near Burkett, destroying a barn, downing power lines, and damaging three homes.
May 1994Tornado (F1)Burkett$50,000A tornado at Burkett blew down a 240-kilovolt power line pole.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindBurkett$5,000Power line poles were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindBurkett-Strong thunderstorm winds split a tree.
June 2023HailBurkett-Public reported ping pong ball size hail.
May 2016Flash FloodBurkett-The fire department reported water running over the road at State Highway 206 and County Road 182.
May 2016HailBurkett-The fire department reported baseball size hail, 3 miles north of Burkett.
April 2015Tornado (EF0)Burkett-DPS Abilene reported a tornado just north of Burkett.
March 2014HailBurkett-A trained spotter reported hail covering the ground on Highway 206.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindBurkett-A trained spotter reported numerous large pecan tree limbs down.
September 2001Tornado (F1)Burkett-Storm chasers reported a tornado northwest of Burkett in northern Coleman County, causing several telephone lines to be cut.
May 2000HailBurkett-Tennis ball size hail moved across Northeast Coleman County.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBurkett-Flooding was reported in Burkett.
June 1995HailBurkett-Flooding was reported in Burkett.
April 2015Funnel CloudBurkett-no account filed
May 2015HailBurkett-no account filed
April 2015HailBurkett-no account filed
March 2013HailBurkett-no account filed
March 2013HailBurkett-no account filed
May 2006HailBurkett-no account filed
April 2003HailBurkett-no account filed
September 2001HailBurkett-no account filed
April 2000HailBurkett-no account filed
May 1996HailBurkett-no account filed
April 1994HailBurkett-no account filed
April 1993HailBurkett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coleman 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
Webbville3.6 miles9
Echo6.8 miles14
Buffalo14.2 miles15
Coleman15.8 miles13
Hamrick16.5 miles13
San Angelo Junction16.9 miles13
Silver Valley17.2 miles12
Santa Anna18.2 miles13

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 BurkettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4998978The 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 1331677. 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.