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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.

Campbellton within Atascosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

20 since 2006

Regional 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 use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
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
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 37 MARKER 86
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 37
5 September 2014Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceARROWS/SAN MIGUEL
8 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMM 88 GRASS FIRE
4 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE / FM1099
29 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCROSBY
23 July 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 37 MARKER 85
15 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceARROW S RANCH

Every fire recorded in Atascosa 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Witherspoon Ranch PitBentonitePast ProducerBentonite

Every working recorded in Atascosa County

Storms near this place

16 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1996Thunderstorm WindCampbellton1 hurt, $30,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindCampbellton$50,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew the roof off several houses and blew down numerous trees.
May 2001HailCampbellton$30,000no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindCampbellton$5,000Power lines were reported down and a few trees were uprooted east of Interstate 37 near Campbellton.
April 2021HailCampbellton$500A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail that damaged windows in Campbellton.
April 2023Flash FloodCampbellton-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that fooded FM 791 at the intersection with CR 445 northeast of Campbellton.
April 2023HailCampbellton-A thunderstorm produced hail from dime to quarter size along I-37 northeast of Whitsett.
March 2023HailCampbellton-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Campbellton.
April 2021HailCampbellton-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Campbellton at the Kuntry Korner Grocery store on Commerce St.
March 2012Flash FloodCampbellton-Slow moving thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flash flooding and closed parts of Highway 791 near Campbellton.
March 2009HailCampbellton-A resident reported penny size hail.
April 2007Flash FloodCampbellton-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 2014HailCampbellton-no account filed
February 1998HailCampbellton-no account filed
February 1998Funnel CloudCampbellton-no account filed
February 1998HailCampbellton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Atascosa 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
Peggy6.6 miles9
McCoy8.2 miles10
Fashing9.2 miles11
Christine10.7 miles9
Leal11.9 miles8
Coughran14.8 miles9
La Parita16.9 miles8
Black Hill17.1 miles8

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 CampbelltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5028214The 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.