Campbellton, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Campbellton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78008. It stands on Borrego Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whitsett quadrangle. It stands 240 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1930 USGS Whitsett quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Whitsett quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Whitsett quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Campbellton between 2006 and 2020, burning about 338 acres in total. 1 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 | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | IH 37 MARKER 86 |
| 8 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | IH 37 |
| 5 September 2014 | Natural | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ARROWS/SAN MIGUEL |
| 8 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MM 88 GRASS FIRE |
| 4 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE / FM1099 |
| 29 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CROSBY |
| 23 July 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | IH 37 MARKER 85 |
| 15 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ARROW S RANCH |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Campbellton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Bentonite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Witherspoon Ranch Pit | Bentonite | Past Producer | Bentonite |
Storms near this place
16 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Campbellton in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Campbellton | 1 hurt, $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Campbellton | $50,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew the roof off several houses and blew down numerous trees. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Campbellton | $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Campbellton | $5,000 | Power lines were reported down and a few trees were uprooted east of Interstate 37 near Campbellton. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Campbellton | $500 | A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail that damaged windows in Campbellton. |
| April 2023 | Flash Flood | Campbellton | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that fooded FM 791 at the intersection with CR 445 northeast of Campbellton. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Campbellton | - | A thunderstorm produced hail from dime to quarter size along I-37 northeast of Whitsett. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Campbellton | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Campbellton. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Campbellton | - | A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Campbellton at the Kuntry Korner Grocery store on Commerce St. |
| March 2012 | Flash Flood | Campbellton | - | Slow moving thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flash flooding and closed parts of Highway 791 near Campbellton. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Campbellton | - | A resident reported penny size hail. |
| April 2007 | Flash Flood | Campbellton | - | Thunderstorms over Atascosa County produced general 1 to 2 inch totals with amounts of up to 4 inches near Fashing and along the Karnes County line. Flash flooding closed FM98, FM2994 and FM791 through the early afternoon. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Campbellton | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Campbellton | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Campbellton | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Campbellton | - | 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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Campbellton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5028214 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1372901. 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.







