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Post Oak Bend, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Terrell South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75142. It stands on Eagans Branch. The Survey maps it on the Terrell South quadrangle.

Post Oak Bend within Kaufman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

314 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Post Oak Bend between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,074 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning146
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Equipment and vehicle use43
Smoking29
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor5

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
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2013Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5676 CHRYL LANE
8 September 2005Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCITY LAKE
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCITY LAKE 1
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePYLE HILL
5 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service136B
4 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANGELINA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Post Oak Bend in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 1 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
April 2024Flash FloodPost Oak Bend$100,000Broadcast media had video showing flash flooding of homes and residential property in the city of Kaufman due to a slow-draining nearby reservoir during heavy rainfall.
May 2010HailPost Oak Bend-Nickel size hail fell south of the town of Terrell.

Every storm recorded in Kaufman 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
Post Oak Bend City0.6 miles10
Cartwright2.3 miles10
Lone Star2.4 miles10
Oak Ridge2.6 miles10
Wilson3.1 miles10
Kaufman3.4 miles10
Union Valley4.1 miles10
Talty5.3 miles12

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 Q122549952The 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 1378902. 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.