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Burleigh, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bellville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77418. The Survey maps it on the Burleigh quadrangle. It stands 197 feet above sea level.

Burleigh within Austin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

16 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Burleigh between 2009 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 1 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 burning8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ OIL FIELD
6 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE - GRASS
29 September 2011Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE-GRASS
11 August 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ IGNOSKIE
9 July 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ FM 529
27 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ HWY 36 SOUTH
30 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
19 June 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE-GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Austin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Burleigh: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Austin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burleigh in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 2 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
September 2000Thunderstorm WindBurleigh$15,000Trees and power lines down at FM 529 and Smith Road.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBurleigh$2,000Power lines were downed.

Every storm recorded in Austin 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
Peters4.5 miles11
Macedonia5.2 miles11
Bellville6.0 miles9
Millheim6.2 miles11
Raccoon Bend6.4 miles8
Cochran7.6 miles8
Buckhorn8.6 miles8
San Felipe9.1 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 BurleighAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710365The 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 1379480. 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.