Clarkson, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Burlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76570. The Survey maps it on the Ben Arnold quadrangle.

Clarkson within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Ben Arnold quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Clarkson between 2006 and 2018, burning about 41 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
18 July 2013	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BEN ARNOLD FIRE
16 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JAMES VOGELSANG
16 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	VOGELSANG
10 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 May 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MATOUS FIRE
26 May 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HATCHER FIRE
25 May 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MITCHELL FIRE
22 May 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TAMEZ FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkson in 1 storm report in 2022: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2022	Hail	New Clarkson	-	A trained spotter reported half-dollar sized hail about 6 miles southeast of Rosebud, TX.

Every storm recorded in Milam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
New Clarkson	1.3 miles	7
Briary	3.8 miles	7
Ben Arnold	4.0 miles	7
Burlington	4.0 miles	7
Jones Prairie	5.3 miles	7
Belmena	6.0 miles	7
Silver City	6.0 miles	7
Splawn	6.1 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379553. 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.