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Hartburg, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Deweyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77632. The Survey maps it on the Hartburg quadrangle.

Hartburg within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Hartburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,434 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 41 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 burning47
Arson/incendiarism41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2005Natural130 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
7 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 224
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIVINGSTON - 853
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIVINGSTON - 963
24 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning85 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 254
22 September 2005Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 255
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hartburg: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Deweyville Dredge & PlantSilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Teal PitSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducerSand

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartburg in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 2 tornado, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2021Tornado (EF2)Hartburg$850,000This tornado crossed from Orange County into Newton County, damaging|several homes and garages in Hartburg. Max estimated wind speed was 130 MPH.
March 2012Flash FloodHartburg$30,000Thunderstorms trained over the same area through the afternoon and evening across portions of Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana. Between 10 and 14 inches of rain flooded and closed roadways across northern and central Newton County. Water was around one and a half foot deep in some roadways around Burkville.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindHartburg$2,000A storage shed was flipped on its side along county road 4191 in Hartburg.
August 2011Tornado (EF0)Hartburg$1,000A tornado briefy touched down, knocking large branches down from some trees.
June 2015Flash FloodHartburg-Heavy rain trained across southern and central sections of Newton County for several hours on already saturated soil. This produced roadways that were flooded out and closed for many hours.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Ruliff2.0 miles13
Deweyville3.0 miles13
Salem19.6 miles9
Trout Creek24.9 miles9
Call25.2 miles9
Sandjack26.5 miles12
Adsul26.9 miles9
Harrells28.4 miles9

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 Q122545818The 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 1337420. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.