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Clareville, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Beeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78102. The Survey maps it on the Clareville quadrangle.

Clareville within Bee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Clareville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 559 acres in total. None 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning5
Smoking3
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
8 August 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1349
30 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEBOURVEAU
4 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
18 April 2006Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 March 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clareville in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2013Thunderstorm WindClareville-A tree with the diameter of two feet was snapped by the wind at a home in the Clareville subdivision.

Every storm recorded in Bee 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
River Oaks Number 2 Colonia5.6 miles9
Salazar Heights Colonia6.1 miles9
Olmos6.2 miles11
Blue Berry Hill6.6 miles9
Blue Berry Hill Colonia6.7 miles9
Cadiz8.1 miles10
Orangedale8.4 miles9
Beeville8.5 miles9

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 ClarevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113023101The 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 1378125. 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.