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Tabor, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Northeast Brazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77808. The Survey maps it on the Kurten quadrangle.

Tabor within Brazos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

41 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Tabor between 2005 and 2018, burning about 747 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
18 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-0000039
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2014Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14-0005139 DICK ELLIOTT GRASS FIRE
24 August 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7353 DICK ELLIOTT RD
15 August 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-5577 RABBIT LANE FIRE
9 July 2013Misuse of fire by a minor4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2746 MEADOWLARK CIRCLE
6 July 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCIRCLE X

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazos County

Storms near this place

9 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tabor in 9 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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
May 2024FloodTabor$400,000Flooding from numerous heavy rain events in April and early May led to significant damage.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindTabor$1,000A storage shed was damaged.
May 2025HailTabor-A trained storm spotter reported golf ball size hail in northern Brazos county.
May 2023Funnel CloudTabor-Funnel cloud reported by law enforcement near old Spanish Rd and Rabbit Ln.
March 2022HailTabor-Quarter sized hail was observed in Benchley.
March 2022HailTabor-Dime to quarter sized hail was observed off Castenson Road.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindTabor-Wind gust was measured with a handheld anemometer.
March 2020HailTabor-Quarter sized hail was observed.
April 2019HailTabor-The golfball size hail was reported just south of Highway 190 and Old Spanish Trail.

Every storm recorded in Brazos 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
Moore2.7 miles7
Cottonwood3.0 miles7
Wixon Valley3.6 miles7
Union5.7 miles7
Kurten5.7 miles7
Edge7.7 miles7
Reliance7.9 miles10
Steep Hollow8.1 miles11

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 TaborAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q114289369The 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 1380637. 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.