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Holder, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the May census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76857. The Survey maps it on the May quadrangle.

Holder within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

90 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Holder between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,400 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use17
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2559 7404
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2273
28 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 411
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCCARTY 7416
15 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use32 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 406 5006
15 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service100 CR 411
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service800 CR 423
13 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17034438

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holder in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011HailHolder-A storm spotter located 5 miles south of May, along U.S. Highway 183, estimated hail to be around 3 inches in diameter.
May 2011HailHolder-Two inch hail was reported 1 mile east of Holder.
April 2019HailHolder-no account filed
March 2013HailHolder-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Byrds3.3 miles17
Owens5.3 miles14
Lake Brownwood5.5 miles17
May5.6 miles14
Williams7.8 miles9
Lake Shore8.2 miles17
Shamrock Shores9.0 miles17
Grosvenor9.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378465. 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.