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Pendleton, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Bell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76579. The Survey maps it on the Troy quadrangle. 845 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

Pendleton within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

54 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Pendleton between 2002 and 2020, burning about 847 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
6 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBERGER RD FIRE
20 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL POINTE
4 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 439 GRASS FIRE
4 July 2009Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service317 @ FRANKLIN
22 July 2009Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service317 @ COMMUNITY CENTER
16 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLITTLE MEXICO
7 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 26

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell 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 Pendleton: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Tex-RockSilicaUnknown

Every working recorded in Bell County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pendleton in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 2021HailPendleton$100,000no account filed
May 2021Tornado (EF0)Pendleton$50,000Several homes sustained minor damage from a brief tornado along Willow Grove Road between Moody Road and Franklin Road. Some outbuildings and chicken coops were damaged or destroyed. A resident video recorded the tornado for part of its path. Maximum winds were around 75 mph.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindPendleton$15,000Two barns were blown down from thunderstorm winds.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindPendleton$7,000A trained spotter reported damage to a barn, and awning, a mobile home and trees.
September 2023HailPendleton-Reported via mPing.
October 2015Flash FloodPendleton-About 10-12 roads remained closed due to flooding in the Temple, Belton, Nolanville, and Harker Heights areas.
August 2001Flash FloodPendleton-F.M. 1237 between Pendelton and S.H. 317 was under water.
May 2024HailPendleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bell 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
Troy2.6 miles15
Berger2.7 miles15
Belco4.1 miles15
White Hall4.6 miles16
Moffat6.4 miles16
Stampede6.7 miles16
Temple6.7 miles15
Gober6.8 miles15

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 PendletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7162458The 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 1365035. 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.