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Hammond, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bremond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77837. The Survey maps it on the Hammond quadrangle. It stands 397 feet above sea level.

Hammond within Robertson 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

56 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Hammond between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,136 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
28 September 2011Natural7.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 944
21 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAMMOND RD FIRE
19 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEELE RD. FIRE
18 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH6 @ TURNER RD
10 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHOMPSON RD
4 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH TIDWELL
4 August 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Robertson County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hammond in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2025Flash FloodHammond$2,000EM reported that the full length of Kitty Kat Lane was closed due to flooding and is impassable.
June 2025Flash FloodHammond$2,000EM reported FM 1373 at Alligator Creek flooded and impassable.
June 2025Flash FloodHammond$2,000The EM reported the full length of Closs Rd, between Hammond and Calvert, was closed due to flooding.
June 2025Flash FloodHammond$2,000The EM reported the full length of Yastic Rd, between Bremond and Hammond, was closed due to flooding.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHammond-Strong winds blew down trees.
December 1997HailHammond-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindHammond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Robertson 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
Tidwell Prairie3.0 miles8
Hogg3.6 miles7
Salter4.5 miles8
Bremond5.2 miles7
Nesbitt6.2 miles7
Calvert8.4 miles8
Owensville10.4 miles7
Calvert Junction10.6 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 HammondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5645820The 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 1358706. 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.