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Olmos, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Skidmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78389. The Survey maps it on the Tynan quadrangle.

Olmos within Bee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

45 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Olmos between 2005 and 2020, burning about 522 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
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
5 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
19 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 796
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service13/26
12 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7-DEC
23 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service15/16
23 July 2014Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14/23

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olmos in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2009: 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2009Thunderstorm WindOlmos$25,000A supercell moved southeast across Live Oak County into Bee County. This storm produced a 5 to 10 mile swath of damage mainly due to high winds. A couple of semi-trucks were turned over along Interstate 37. Several power poles were snapped or leaned over along with highway signs being blown over and business signs blown out. Medium to large tree branches were snapped in some areas along the path. Damage to cables on cell phone towers was also observed. The winds were estimated to be 60 to 70 mph with gusts as high as 80 mph.
July 2007Flash FloodOlmos-Between 2 and 4 inches of rain fell late on the 23rd and during the early morning hours of the 24th across rural, western Bee county. Several Farm to Market roads were flooded and closed, including F.M. 796, F.M. 888 and F.M. 797.|

Every storm recorded in Bee 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
River Oaks Number 2 Colonia5.3 miles9
Tynan5.9 miles11
Clareville6.2 miles9
Skidmore7.1 miles9
Yougeen8.3 miles9
Salazar Heights Colonia10.0 miles9
Blue Berry Hill10.3 miles9
Blue Berry Hill Colonia10.4 miles9

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 OlmosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113039519The 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 1378804. 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.