Burlington, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Burlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76519. The Survey maps it on the Rosebud quadrangle.

Burlington within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Rosebud quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

33 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Burlington between 2005 and 2018, burning about 306 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	8
Smoking	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2014-125
6 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	45 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COUNTY ROAD 133
2 July 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASSFIRE
18 July 2013	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BEN ARNOLD FIRE
10 July 2013	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2013-095

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burlington in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2022	Hail	Burlington	$25,000	A public report indicated 2 inch diameter hail about 4 miles south-southwest of Rosebud, TX.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Burlington	$10,000	FM 437 near the Bell County line was partially washed out and closed. Numerous other roads were also closed due to high water.
April 2024	Tornado (EF0)	Burlington	$5,000	This EF-0 tornado was confirmed by video and a damage assessment from local officials. A tornado occurred east of Highway 77 in Burlington, damaging a small shed on one property and a few uninhabited mobile homes on a neighboring property. Damage mostly consisted of peeled metal paneling on the roofs and sides. Maximum estimated winds were 80 mph.
March 2010	Hail	Burlington	-	Nickel size hail fell south of the city of Rosebud along Highway 77.
April 1996	Hail	Burlington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Milam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ben Arnold	3.6 miles	7
Clarkson	4.0 miles	7
New Clarkson	4.9 miles	7
Briary	5.9 miles	7
Yarrelton	6.3 miles	14
North Elm	6.3 miles	14
Splawn	6.6 miles	7
Silver City	7.7 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1353333. 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.