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Davidson, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Caldwell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77836. It stands on Second Davidson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Frenstat quadrangle.

Davidson within Burleson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Davidson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 520 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 were 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
Debris and open burning66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking3
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service10166 TX 36S GRASS FIRE
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceADKINSON
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKOUATLI OIL PAD
19 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenance100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service540 CR. 470
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service8370 CR. 150
12 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH36 SOUTH
7 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burleson County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Davidson in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 4 hail, 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
January 2016HailDavidson$1,000Quarter sized hail occurred in the Beaver Creek community off of FM 3058 about six miles southeast of Caldwell.
March 2025HailDavidson-Hail was reported via MPING near Davidson.
March 2025HailDavidson-A member of the public reported 1.5 inch hail near Davidson.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindDavidson-A large tree was downed and blocked the road near the intersection of County Road 120 and FM 3058.
May 2013HailDavidson-A strong thunderstorm produced dime sized hail between Caldwell and Snook.

Every storm recorded in Burleson 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
Harmony2.1 miles8
Beaver Creek4.0 miles8
Caldwell5.2 miles8
Frenstat5.3 miles8
Center Line5.9 miles8
Birch6.7 miles8
Lyons6.9 miles8
Deanville7.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380839. 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.