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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 7 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 Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Kurten quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
41 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 17-0000039 |
| 1 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 14-0005139 DICK ELLIOTT GRASS FIRE |
| 24 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7353 DICK ELLIOTT RD |
| 15 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 17-5577 RABBIT LANE FIRE |
| 9 July 2013 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2746 MEADOWLARK CIRCLE |
| 6 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CIRCLE X |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2018Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Flood | Tabor | $400,000 | Flooding from numerous heavy rain events in April and early May led to significant damage. |
| December 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tabor | $1,000 | A storage shed was damaged. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Tabor | - | A trained storm spotter reported golf ball size hail in northern Brazos county. |
| May 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Tabor | - | Funnel cloud reported by law enforcement near old Spanish Rd and Rabbit Ln. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Tabor | - | Quarter sized hail was observed in Benchley. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Tabor | - | Dime to quarter sized hail was observed off Castenson Road. |
| March 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tabor | - | Wind gust was measured with a handheld anemometer. |
| March 2020 | Hail | Tabor | - | Quarter sized hail was observed. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Tabor | - | The golfball size hail was reported just south of Highway 190 and Old Spanish Trail. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moore | 2.7 miles | 7 | |
| Cottonwood | 3.0 miles | 7 | |
| Wixon Valley | 3.6 miles | 7 | |
| Union | 5.7 miles | 7 | |
| Kurten | 5.7 miles | 7 | |
| Edge | 7.7 miles | 7 | |
| Reliance | 7.9 miles | 10 | |
| Steep Hollow | 8.1 miles | 11 |
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 Tabor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q114289369 | 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 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.


