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Haslam, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Tenaha-Joaquin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75954. The Survey maps it on the Logansport West quadrangle.

Haslam within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Haslam between 1992 and 2020, burning about 320 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 207
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 471
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.2 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
18 September 1999Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 332
6 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 297
30 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 476

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haslam in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025Flash FloodHaslam-Flooding reported with high water covering the roadway in Joaquin near the intersection of Highway 7 and FM Road 139. Flooding was also reported just west of this location along Highway 84 in Joaquin.
April 2023HailHaslam-Nickel size hail fell near Joaquin.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHaslam-A tree was blown down on Highway 84 East in Joaquin. Power lines were also downed on Highway 7 East in Joaquin.

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Joaquin1.4 miles13
Fellowship2.0 miles13
Jackson2.9 miles13
Paxton7.3 miles12
Antioch8.2 miles13
James8.8 miles13
Campti9.8 miles13
North Jericho10.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122569547The 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 1379906. 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.