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Stampede, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northwest Bell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76557. It stands on Payne Branch. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Springs quadrangle.

Stampede within Bell 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

62 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Stampede between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,800 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
28 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBILL AUGMIER
27 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBILL AUGNIER
24 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOODY LEON
20 September 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service554
12 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceIRON BRIDGE RD
11 September 2014Natural5.4 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIRON BRIDGE RD
31 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINKLER PARK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stampede in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 1 flood, 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 FloodStampede$50,000Emergency management reported multiple instances of flash flooding along Highway 317 from Temple to the McLennan County line; including impassable roads and at least one vehicle stranded in high water.
November 2016FloodStampede$1,000Bell County Sheriff's Department reported that asphalt had been washed off of Dove Road south of Highway 107, and Dove Rd will remain closed.

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
Meador Grove2.8 miles16
White Hall4.5 miles16
Moffat6.6 miles16
Pendleton6.7 miles15
Owl Creek6.8 miles19
Troy7.5 miles15
Bland7.6 miles19
Jubilee Springs8.8 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 StampedeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113349615The 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 1380598. 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.