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Kovar, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Smithville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78941. It stands on Hickory Creek. The Survey maps it on the Togo quadrangle. It stands 449 feet above sea level.

Kovar within Bastrop County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Kovar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 296 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
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 102
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKOVAR FIRE
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVYVJALA RD FIRE
14 September 1992Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 August 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 August 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD LOCKHART
13 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEDUNA ROAD
12 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kovar in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 3 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
March 2018HailKovar-A thunderstorm produced half dollar to ping pong ball size hail in Kovar east of Rosanky.
March 2018HailKovar-A thunderstorm produced three to three and a half inch hail near Rosanky.
March 2018HailKovar-A thunderstorm produced three inch hail near Kovar east of Rosanky.
October 2009Flash FloodKovar-Farm to market road 535 was closed due to high water between Rosanky and Smithville.

Every storm recorded in Bastrop 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
Willman3.3 miles11
Togo3.4 miles11
Rosanky4.6 miles11
Flower Hill6.2 miles11
String Prairie7.1 miles11
Colorado7.2 miles11
Salem7.3 miles12
Smithville7.9 miles17

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 KovarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6434840The 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 1380040. 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.