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Hackberry, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Paducah South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79248. It stands on Buffalo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chalk quadrangle.

Hackberry within Cottle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Hackberry between 2006 and 2017, burning about 1,186 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
31 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 July 2011Arson/incendiarism100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE - 14 MILES SE
24 July 2017Natural567 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGIBSON RANCH
25 June 2008Natural18 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 June 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
8 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1278 DON HUTCHINSON RANCH
12 March 2006Recreation and ceremony375 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cottle County

Storms near this place

23 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hackberry in 23 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 18 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2000HailHackberry$20,000no account filed
April 2000HailHackberry$15,000Very large hail damaged cars and broke windows at the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 1038 and County Road 490.
April 2003HailHackberry$10,000The Cottle County Sheriff's Office reported golfball size hail.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindHackberry$500A cooperative observer reported a tin roof and doors blown off of a barn southeast of Paducah as a severe thunderstorm moved by.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindHackberry-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry measured severe wind gusts from 1909 CST through 1912 CST. A peak wind gust of 68 mph was measured at 1910 CST.
June 2025HailHackberry-Local broadcast media relayed a report of hail near Hackberry measuring approximately two inches in diameter. No damage was reported at the time.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHackberry-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry measured severe wind gusts from 0114 CST to 0116 CST. A peak wind gust of 73 mph was measured at 0115 CST.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHackberry-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry measured severe wind gusts from 1948 CST to 1949 CST. A peak wind gust of 67 mph was measured at 1949 CST.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHackberry-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry measured severe wind gusts from 2247 CST through 2250 CST. A peak wind gust of 61 mph was measured at 2249 CST.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHackberry-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry measured severe wind gusts from 1743 CST through 1750 CST. A peak wind gust of 72 mph was measured at 1746 CST.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindHackberry-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry measured severe wind gusts from 1756 CST through 1757 CST. A peak wind gust of 64 mph was measured at 1756 CST.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindHackberry-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry measured severe wind gusts from 2111 CST through 2112 CST. A peak wind gust of 70 mph was measured at 2112 CST.
October 2023Thunderstorm WindHackberry-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry measured a wind gust of 59 mph.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHackberry-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry measured a wind gust of 58 mph.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindHackberry-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry measured severe wind gusts from 1503 CST through 1504 CST. A peak wind gust of 60 mph was measured at 1504 CST.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHackberry-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry measured 59 mph wind gusts from 0758 CST through 0759 CST.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindHackberry-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry measured severe wind gusts from 1942 CST through 1943 CST. A peak wind gust of 96 mph was measured at 1943 CST.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindHackberry-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry measured a peak wind gust to 78 mph at 1653 CST. Intermittent severe wind gusts were measured from 1648 through 1658 CST.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindHackberry-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry measured a wind gust to 61 mph.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindHackberry-Measured by a Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHackberry-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry recorded a wind gust to 61 mph.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHackberry-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry measured a wind gust to 58 mph.
May 2005Tornado (F0)Hackberry-Fire department report of a brief tornado touchdown.

Every storm recorded in Cottle 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
Chalk5.5 miles8
Sneedville7.9 miles8
Paducah9.9 miles8
Jacobs (historical)10.8 miles8
Ogden11.0 miles8
Ginsite11.4 miles8
Valley View13.1 miles8
Delwin13.9 miles8

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 HackberryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127691296The 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 1379875. 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.