BlockBusby, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Roby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79543. The Survey maps it on the Busby quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS Roby quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Busby quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Snyder quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
37 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Busby between 2005 and 2020, burning about 4,723 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2010 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 419 |
| 27 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SUSAN KENNEDY |
| 26 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TX DOT |
| 21 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM419 |
| 8 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TXDOT |
| 25 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BOBBY GRUBEN DITCH FIRE |
| 24 August 2006 | Natural | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Busby in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2016: 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Hail | Busby | $2,000 | A patrol car along the Nolan and Fisher county line ran into golfball size hail that did considerable damage to the car. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Busby | - | Law Enforcement reported 8 to 10 inches of water over the road on Farm to Market 419. |
| April 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Busby | - | A storm chaser took a picture of this tornado. He said it was on the ground for about 5 minutes as he was looking to the southwest from State Highway 57 between Longworth and Sylvester. The location of the tornado matched up well with the radar signature. The Enhanced Fujita rating was estimated since no damage was reported. |
| April 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Busby | - | Law enforcement reported a funnel cloud 1 mile southeast of Gannon. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Busby | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Busby | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378075. 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.