BlockNew Clarkson, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Burlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76520. The Survey maps it on the Rosebud quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Rosebud quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of New Clarkson between 2012 and 2020, burning about 18 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 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 267 & CR 270 |
| 16 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JAMES VOGELSANG |
| 16 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VOGELSANG |
| 26 May 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HATCHER FIRE |
| 7 January 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TREY MAYER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Clarkson in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2022 | Hail | New Clarkson | - | A trained spotter reported half-dollar sized hail about 6 miles southeast of Rosebud, TX. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarkson | 1.3 miles | 7 | |
| Briary | 2.8 miles | 7 | |
| Jones Prairie | 4.8 miles | 7 | |
| Burlington | 4.9 miles | 7 | |
| Baileyville | 5.2 miles | 7 | |
| Ben Arnold | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Crossroads | 6.7 miles | 7 | |
| Belmena | 6.7 miles | 7 |
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 Q122557234 | 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 1380245. 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.