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Burns, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Hooks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75561. It lies near Black Bottom. The Survey maps it on the Redbank quadrangle.

Burns within Bowie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

85 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Burns between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,010 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 9 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 burning50
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
9 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minor30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2000Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 370
4 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 333
3 September 1995Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 206
25 September 2011Natural12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 636
24 September 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 627

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burns in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 hail. 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 2015HailBurns-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bowie 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
Smith Hill1.5 miles11
Redbank1.7 miles11
Barkman2.4 miles13
Red Bank2.5 miles13
Hooks3.6 miles13
Whaley4.5 miles13
Victory City4.6 miles18
Spanish Bluff (historical)5.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1353352. 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.