Hardy, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Montague-Forestburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76239. It lies near McCracken Mound. The Survey maps it on the Forestburg quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Montague quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Forestburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
66 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Hardy between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,126 acres in total. 7 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 burning | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CECIL JONES PIT FIRE |
| 19 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSFIRE BY TIRE |
| 19 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2013-156 |
| 19 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BINGHAM RD |
| 16 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SELF RANCH |
| 9 August 2011 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAMMER LIGHTNING |
| 9 August 2011 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROUND PRARIE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hardy in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2020 | Flash Flood | Hardy | - | Flood debris was reported across FM 677 north of FM 1630 due to multiple rounds of heavy rain. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Hardy | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gladys | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Forestburg | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Dye | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Mallard | 7.0 miles | 10 | |
| Saint Jo | 8.2 miles | 10 | |
| New Harp | 9.0 miles | 9 | |
| Dry Valley | 9.2 miles | 10 | |
| Salona | 12.2 miles | 10 |
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 Hardy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q122834625 | The 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 1379888. 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.





