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Klump, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Burton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77833. It stands on Rocky Creek. The Survey maps it on the Welcome quadrangle.

Klump within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

77 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Klump between 2008 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
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 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service290/OLD BURTON ROAD
7 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3671 FM 109
3 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service365 SHADY ACRES LANE
29 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service105 LANGE LAKE ROAD
27 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFARMER FIRE
15 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4805 FM 2502

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Klump: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure. 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
Brenham Dome ProspectSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra PureOccurrenceHalite

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Klump in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2019: 2 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 2019Thunderstorm WindKlump-Trees were downed near the intersection of FM 389 and Sawmill Road.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindKlump-Large trees were downed at the intersection of Dogwood Road and Adamek Road.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Mill Creek2.4 miles10
Wesley3.5 miles7
Greenvine3.6 miles7
Muellersville3.9 miles10
Berlin4.2 miles10
Latium4.6 miles7
Zionville5.6 miles10
Brenham5.9 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378530. 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.