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Gouldbusk, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Talpa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76845. The Survey maps it on the Gouldbusk quadrangle. It stands 1,512 feet above sea level.

Gouldbusk within Coleman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

23 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Gouldbusk between 2006 and 2018, burning about 865 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
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
27 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHIELDS
4 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 304 WILDFIRE
20 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceK. POPE SWATHER WILDFIRE
16 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBERRIE FIRE
16 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2009Natural200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBROWN & JOHNSON
7 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use160 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBILL AINSWORTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coleman County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gouldbusk in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2014: 6 hail, 4 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGouldbusk$10,000Wind gust of 64 mph damaged sailboats at the O.H. Ivie Reservoir
June 2014Thunderstorm WindGouldbusk-The strong thunderstorm winds blew down four inch diameter tree limbs.
April 2000HailGouldbusk-Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported in extreme southern Coleman County.
May 2013HailGouldbusk-no account filed
May 2013HailGouldbusk-no account filed
March 2010HailGouldbusk-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindGouldbusk-no account filed
April 2000HailGouldbusk-no account filed
June 1998HailGouldbusk-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGouldbusk-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coleman 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
Mozelle3.2 miles12
Shields3.8 miles12
Hays Crossing6.3 miles14
Voss6.4 miles14
Rockwood6.6 miles13
Chaffin Crossing8.0 miles14
Fisk8.0 miles13
Whon10.1 miles15

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 GouldbuskAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5588298The 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 1358215. 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.