BlockKlondike, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lamesa Southwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79331. The Survey maps it on the Tenmile quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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 Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Tenmile quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lamesa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Klondike between 2005 and 2012, burning about 327 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 March 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ESTES |
| 7 February 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 December 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 January 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Klondike in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 2 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Klondike | $2,000 | A thunderstorm moved across Dawson County and produced wind damage in Klondike. A snapped power pole was reported three miles west of Highway 137 on County Road 30. The cost of damage is a rough estimate. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Klondike | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Klondike | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patricia | 3.4 miles | 6 | |
| Tenmile | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Fivemile | 6.1 miles | 8 | |
| Sparenberg | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Friendship | 6.5 miles | 6 | |
| Union | 9.7 miles | 6 | |
| Los Ybanez | 11.2 miles | 8 | |
| Lamesa | 12.3 miles | 8 |
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 Klondike | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6421245 | 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 1378529. 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.