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Eylau, Texas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Texarkana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75501. The Survey maps it on the Texarkana quadrangle. It stands 322 feet above sea level.

Eylau within Bowie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

382 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 382 fires within 5 miles of Eylau between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,703 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 23 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 burning246
Missing data/not specified/undetermined74
Arson/incendiarism23
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2019Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOWIE 12:32
9 September 1999Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1998Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service420 STIPP LANE
8 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUCHANAN RD/SMITH RD
6 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service657 SUNRAY RD
6 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 634
6 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance24 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Eylau: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
S. W. A. PitsIronProducer
Bruce Kennedy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bruce Kennedy Pit 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bruce Kennedy Pit 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bruce Kennedy Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bowie County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eylau in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 4 flash flood, 3 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
October 2009Flash FloodEylau$100,000Water flooded several homes in the Liberty Eyleau community. In addition, nearly 14 city streets were flooded in the community.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindEylau$50,000Large tree was downed on a mobile home on George Thomas Road in the Liberty Elyau community. Woman and child were rescued from the mobile home with no injuries reported. Trees were also downed across South State Line Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindEylau-A tree was uprooted onto a home in the area of Redwood Drive and Maryland Drive in Liberty Eylau, with power lines and several more trees also downed across roads and onto other homes in this area.
May 2021Flash FloodEylau-On the Texas side of Texarkana, 7th Street was covered in high water along an extended stretch of the roadway. West 7th Street was closed at the Kansas City Southern underpass, the 40th Street and Potomac Street intersection, and Summerhill Road at Galleria Oaks.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindEylau-A 70 mph wind gust was estimated at the intersection of Highway 59 and Kings Highway southwest of Texarkana.
December 2009Flash FloodEylau-Flooding was reported on US 59 and Gun Club Road southwest of Texarkana, Texas.
October 2009Flash FloodEylau-Macedonia Road between Hwy. 67 and Redwater Road was covered with four feet of water.

Every storm recorded in Bowie 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
Hartman2.8 miles18
Wake Village3.3 miles21
South Texarkana4.2 miles21
Nash4.4 miles18
Red Springs4.5 miles18
Texarkana4.8 miles21
Hoot5.0 miles19
Sulphur5.6 miles19

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 EylauAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5422905The 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 1357139. 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.