BlockRidings, Texas
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Ravenna-Telephone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75476. The Survey maps it on the Lake Bonham quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 6 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 Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Bonham quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Lake Bonham quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
92 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Ridings between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,823 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning | 53 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ADAMS |
| 5 September 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | POWER LINE FIRE |
| 30 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 26 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 1 September 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | POWELINE |
| 1 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSHFIRE |
| 1 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTUAL AID RAVENNA |
| 7 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BUENA VISTA TURF FARM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ridings in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2022 | Hail | Ridings | $7,000 | Amateur radio reported golf ball sized hail 2 miles northeast of Ravenna, TX. |
| September 2014 | Flash Flood | Ridings | $500 | The local radio station reported water covering the roadways near Mullberry (FM roads, as well as Hwys 78 and 56). |
| March 2025 | Hail | Ridings | - | Reported via mPING 8 miles north of Bonham. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Ridings | - | Amateur radio reported quarter sized hail about 8 miles north of Bonham. |
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.
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 Q122595261 | 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 1382619. 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.