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Halesboro, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Bogata census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75417. The Survey maps it on the Cunningham quadrangle.

Halesboro within Red River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

109 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Halesboro between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,814 acres in total. 4 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 burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
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 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 567
6 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4TH SW GRASS FIRE 9/6
6 September 2011Arson/incendiarism721 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHALSBORO COMPLEX
6 September 2011Arson/incendiarism25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution21 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 542
28 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 271N FIRE 9/28
25 September 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 196 GRASS FIRE 9/25

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red River County

Storms near this place

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halesboro in 5 storm reports between 2015 and 2018: 3 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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
December 2015Tornado (EF1)Halesboro$35,000An NWS Storm Survey team concluded that the damage southwest of Bogata Texas was consistent with that of tornado damage. The EF1 tornado first touched down just west of County Road 1100. The storm moved in a north northwest trajectory...lifting near the FM 196 and County Road 1112 split. Damage consisted of snapped and/or uprooted trees. Structural damage included the removal of a roof from a two-story home.
December 2015Flash FloodHalesboro$5,000A high water rescue was reported for a car that was swept into a creek on FM. 410 near the Rugby community.
February 2018FloodHalesboro-Widespread heavy rainfall of ten to in excess of twelve inches across the Sulphur River basin of Northeast Texas during the final week of February resulted in rapid rises on the Sulphur River north of Talco, with the river cresting at 26.81 feet during the early evening hours on February 22nd. This resulted in major backwater flooding along the river, with numerous secondary roads (including State Highway 37) flooded across Southern Red River and Northern Franklin Counties.
March 2018Flash FloodHalesboro-Farm to Market Road 410 near and south of County Road 1119 was closed due to flooding.
April 2016Flash FloodHalesboro-Farm To Market Road 410 was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Red River 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
Rugby3.0 miles8
Shadowland4.1 miles8
Bogata4.8 miles8
Fulbright6.6 miles8
Rosalie6.7 miles8
Johntown7.6 miles8
Pine Branch10.2 miles8
Lone Star10.4 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.

Wikidata item Q122567113The 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 1379877. 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.