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Harbin, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dublin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76446. It stands on Bell Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dublin quadrangle.

Harbin within Erath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

269 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 269 fires within 5 miles of Harbin between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,630 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 13 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 burning107
Missing data/not specified/undetermined84
Equipment and vehicle use42
Arson/incendiarism13
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Smoking4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 472
8 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 6 EAST GRASS FIRE
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 242
6 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHLAND AVE GRASS FIRE
28 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE FM 847
28 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 303 GRASS FIRE
28 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erath County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harbin in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 5 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
June 2019HailHarbin$50,000A social media report indicated baseball size hail near the intersection of CR 253 and FM 914, approximately 6 miles south of the city of Stephenville, TX.
May 2014Flash FloodHarbin$20,000Six to eight inches of water was reported over Highway 67 approximately 5 miles southwest of Stephenville.
April 2020HailHarbin-Hail report received via mPing.
May 2015FloodHarbin-The Erath County Sheriff's Department reported water on southbound Hwy 377 near County Road 195. Problems were also reported on FM 847, FM 914, FM 1702, and CR 251.
April 2011HailHarbin-Quarter size hail fell near the intersection of County Road 279 and Highway 377 between Dublin and Stephenville.
September 2009HailHarbin-Penny size hail fell 4 miles southwest of Stephenville.
April 2008HailHarbin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erath 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
Cottonwood2.1 miles12
Dublin4.2 miles12
Alexander5.3 miles12
Bunyan6.0 miles12
Purves7.8 miles12
Shiloh8.1 miles12
Stephenville8.1 miles15
Welcome Valley8.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378415. 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.