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Burris, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lubbock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79404. The Survey maps it on the Lubbock East quadrangle.

Burris within Lubbock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

113 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Burris between 2006 and 2017, burning about 288 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined73
Debris and open burning15
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 272 & FM 831
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2802 INTERSTATE HWY 27
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1902 56TH STREET
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service310 50TH STREET
31 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3437 SE LOOP 289
3 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service5801 AVENUE U
20 August 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMALL GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lubbock County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Burris: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gray PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
H L Stafford Const Co PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Zahn Pavers Caliche PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lubbock County

Storms near this place

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burris in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 flood, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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
May 2008HailBurris$15,000The public reported that tennis ball size hail damaged vehicles along U.S. Highway 84 on the southeast side of Lubbock.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindBurris$10,000A portion of the roof to the Coors Distributors main office was blown off during a wet downburst. The extent of rain damage to the office's contents was not known.
November 2024Flash FloodBurris-Runoff from heavy rainfall over the city of Lubbock early in the morning of the 18th made its way into the North Fork Double Mountain Fork Brazos River beginning on the east side of the city of Lubbock. This water eventually moved downstream into Buffalo Springs Lake. The emergency manager for Buffalo Springs Lake reported two feet of water flowing over Farm to Market Road 835 west of the lake. The emergency manager reported that the road had to be closed.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBurris-A swath of severe thunderstorm winds were observed from southeastern Lubbock to Slaton. A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site in southeast Lubbock measured a wind gust of 63 mph at 2030 CST. At 2041 CST, a mesonet site near Slaton measured a wind gust to 59 mph.
August 2021Heavy RainBurris-Heavy rainfall over central Lubbock County from Friday evening through Saturday morning caused a rise in the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River. Up to two feet of water was reportedly flowing over Farm to Market Road 835 west of Buffalo Springs Lake prompting the closure of the roadway. A USGS gage upstream of this location measured streamflow of up to 1200 cfs.
June 2017FloodBurris-Sections of FM Road 835 and County Road 7000 flooded and were eventually closed by Texas DPS officials shortly after midnight CST on July 1st. The flooded roads focused along the west end of Buffalo Springs Lake.
July 2017Flash FloodBurris-Sections of FM Road 835 and County Road 7000 began to flood before midnight CST on July 1st, and continued to see rising waters for a short while later. The flash flooding was focused primarily along the west end of Buffalo Springs Lake. The roads were eventually re-opened by daybreak once floodwaters had fully receded.
October 2015FloodBurris-A portion of Farm-to-Market Road 835 at Buffalo Springs Lake was closed for several hours due to high water.
June 2009HailBurris-Multiple reports of hail up to the size of quarters were received from portions of east Lubbock as scattered thunderstorms began to intensify along a pre-existing outflow boundary.
May 2014FloodBurris-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lubbock 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
Buffalo Springs Lake3.8 miles8
Posey4.7 miles8
Ransom Canyon5.3 miles8
Canyon5.3 miles8
Lubbock5.4 miles11
Woodrow6.4 miles10
Roosevelt6.8 miles8
Union7.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379485. 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.