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Smiths Bend, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Clifton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76634. The Survey maps it on the Smiths Bend quadrangle. It stands 502 feet above sea level.

Smiths Bend within Bosque County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

147 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Smiths Bend between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,093 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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 burning71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use25
Smoking4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBCSO
8 September 2011Natural580 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAM FIRE
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service444 CR 2101
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOON CREEK
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined175 acresTexas A & M Forest Service364 HCR 2200
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL GHOLSON
3 September 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMURPHY FIRE
3 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution958 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEDAR RIDGE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bosque County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smiths Bend in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2026: 2 hail. 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 2026HailSmiths Bend-Facebook photo showed ping pong ball size hail on PR 3666 near China Spring.
April 2018HailSmiths Bend-Emergency management reported 2 inch diameter hail in the Smith's Bend area of Bosque County.

Every storm recorded in Bosque 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
Laguna Park4.5 miles15
Greenock4.9 miles16
Lakewood Harbor7.9 miles16
Cayote9.2 miles15
Womack10.2 miles15
Cedar Shores10.3 miles16
Rock Springs11.6 miles16
Valley Mills14.8 miles16

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 Smiths BendAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q104862863The 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 1368511. 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.