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Byrds, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the May census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76801. It stands on Hog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Byrds quadrangle.

Byrds within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

96 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Byrds between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,317 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use22
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2559 7404
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCCARTY 7416
23 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 574 (4135)
2 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use32 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 406 5006
15 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service100 CR 411
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service800 CR 423

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown 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 Byrds: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Texas Brick Co Crosscut PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Byrds in 1 storm report in 1994: 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 1994HailByrds-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Holder3.3 miles14
Lake Brownwood5.7 miles17
Grosvenor6.1 miles15
Lake Shore6.3 miles17
Shamrock Shores7.1 miles17
Williams7.5 miles9
Owens7.6 miles14
May7.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378079. 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.