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Harvard, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Pittsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75686. The Survey maps it on the Harvard quadrangle.

Harvard within Camp County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

345 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 345 fires within 5 miles of Harvard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,056 acres in total. 2 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 burning234
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Equipment and vehicle use22
Arson/incendiarism13
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-937
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4114
8 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1085 FM 1520
7 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODLAND HARBOR
7 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-933
5 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4114
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 2131

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camp County

Storms near this place

11 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harvard in 11 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindHarvard$250,000Numerous trees were downed north of Pittsburg, Texas including trees on some homes.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindHarvard$20,000A tree was downed on a home northwest of Pittsburg, Texas.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindHarvard$20,000A tree was downed onto a mobile home north of Pittsburg, Texas. There was no report of injuries.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindHarvard-Camper trailers overturned at Big Al's Barefoot Bay north of Rocky Mound.
April 2024HailHarvard-Golf ball size hail reported near Lake Bob Sandlin Dam.
May 2021HailHarvard-Golf ball size hail fell near Lake Bob Sandlin on County Road 2320.
May 2021HailHarvard-Quarter to half dollar size hail fell on the north side of Pittsburg, breaking a car window.
May 2021HailHarvard-Ping pong ball size hail fell at the Walker Creek Apartments north of Pittsburg.
May 2021HailHarvard-Golfball size hail fell north of Pittsburg.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindHarvard-Trees were blown down on County Road 2119.
October 2010HailHarvard-Baseball sized hail was reported along Hwy. 2418.

Every storm recorded in Camp 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
Macedonia0.9 miles8
Rocky Mound4.0 miles8
Pecan Heights4.2 miles8
Pittsburg4.4 miles12
Spring Hill5.1 miles8
Ebenezer7.6 miles12
Leesburg7.9 miles12
Crossroads8.8 miles12

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 HarvardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116044596The 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 1378423. 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.