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South Texarkana, Texas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 2001. It lies in ZIP code area 71854. It stands on Swampoodle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Texarkana quadrangle.

South Texarkana within Bowie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

299 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 299 fires within 5 miles of South Texarkana between 1993 and 2020, burning about 841 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 20 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 burning152
Missing data/not specified/undetermined86
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3

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 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service420 STIPP LANE
8 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUCHANAN RD/SMITH RD
7 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAY/GILLAM
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 634
5 September 2015Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
4 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1 COUNTY ROAD 1329 ST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of South Texarkana: 11 past producers, 5 producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron. 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
S. W. A. PitsIronProducer
DickeyClayUnknown
GallagherClayPast Producer
Hutchinson PitClayProducer
Texarkana PlantClayProducer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
Hoot PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kennedy Sand & Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Putch Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bowie County

Storms near this place

8 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Texarkana in 8 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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 2013Thunderstorm WindSouth Texarkana$1,000Vehicle windows were blown out in the parking lot of Liberty-Eylau High School southeast of Wake Villiage, Texas.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindSouth Texarkana-A 64 mph wind gust was measured at the Texarkana RAWS station (TEXT2).
September 2022HailSouth Texarkana-Social media pictures showed quarter to half dollar sized hail near Texarkana in the Liberty Eylau area.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindSouth Texarkana-The south side of a carport was lifted and bent northward and folded over on top of a steel awning on Leopard Drive in the Liberty Eylau community. A greenhouse was also destroyed. A large limb was broken off of a nearby tree.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSouth Texarkana-Numerous trees and power lines were downed across the Texas side of Texarkana.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindSouth Texarkana-Numerous trees and power lines were downed in Liberty-Eylau.
May 2015Flash FloodSouth Texarkana-Numerous roads and highways were flooded and closed due to excessive heavy rainfall.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindSouth Texarkana-Several areas of Texarkana without power. Scattered power outages with some tree damage in the area.

Every storm recorded in Bowie 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
Texarkana1.6 miles21
Wake Village3.8 miles21
Eylau4.2 miles21
Hoot5.0 miles19
Nash5.4 miles18
Whatley6.0 miles21
Sulphur6.2 miles19
Hartman6.9 miles18

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 South TexarkanaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113987304The 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 1368785. 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.