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Orangedale, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Beeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78102. The Survey maps it on the Beeville West quadrangle.

Orangedale within Bee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

62 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Orangedale between 2006 and 2020, burning about 716 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 burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2

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
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMULCH
18 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDCAT
8 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS AND STRUCTUAL FIRE
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
16 August 2008Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBEND
30 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.6 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePATTY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orangedale in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 2 heavy rain, 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
June 2025Heavy RainOrangedale-Report from social media with photo showing flooded property and streets. Location and amount is estimated.
April 2013Flash FloodOrangedale-Bee County Sheriff's Office reported water over the road on Farm to Market Road 673 near Orangedale.
July 2012Heavy RainOrangedale-Public reported a rainfall accumulation of 4.7 inches which occurred in about one and a half hours.

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
Old Airport Road Colonia3.2 miles9
Salazar Heights Colonia4.2 miles9
Blue Berry Hill4.2 miles9
Blue Berry Hill Colonia4.3 miles9
Beeville4.9 miles9
Old Houston Highway Colonia5.6 miles9
Hidden Acres Colonia5.8 miles9
Cadiz6.1 miles10

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 OrangedaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113039404The 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 1343305. 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.