Hart Camp, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Littlefield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79339. The Survey maps it on the Fieldton quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Fieldton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Muleshoe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hart Camp between 2010 and 2012, burning about 2,395 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WHEAT FIELD FIRE |
| 13 March 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1003131 |
| 15 January 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 15 January 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 80 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hart Camp in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart Camp | $15,000 | A series of downbursts tracked south through portions of Lamb County accompanied by a wall of dust. These winds overturned a few center pivots along Highway 385 between Springlake and Littlefield. Winds were measured as high as 64 mph at 1920 CST by a Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet near Amherst. Another mesonet near Olton measured wind gusts to 62 mph and 59 mph at 1914 CST and 1935 CST, respectively. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart Camp | - | A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Olton measured severe wind gusts from 1736 CST to 1737 CST. A peak wind gust of 67 mph was measured at 1736 CST. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart Camp | - | Measured by a Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Hart Camp | - | No damage was reported. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart Camp | - | Two severe wind gusts were measured by a Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet south of Olton. The first was 58 mph at 525 PM CST and the second gust to 63 mph occurred at 540 PM CST. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart Camp | - | Measured by a Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart Camp | - | A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet station measured a wind gust to 66 mph. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart Camp | - | Measured by a Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet. |
| September 2001 | Hail | Hart Camp | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Hart Camp | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corry | 2.8 miles | 9 | |
| Fieldton | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Spade | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Cofferville | 9.2 miles | 9 | |
| Olton | 10.9 miles | 9 | |
| Littlefield | 11.8 miles | 8 | |
| Circle | 12.0 miles | 9 | |
| Bainer | 12.3 miles | 9 |
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 Q122550738 | 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 2034833. 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.



