Town Bluff, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Spurger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75979. The Survey maps it on the Town Bluff quadrangle.

Town Bluff within Tyler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Curtis quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Town Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Town Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,766 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 45 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 burning	82
Arson/incendiarism	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
6 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	122 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2013	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDLAND
4 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	085-W-10
29 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	8085

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tyler County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Town Bluff in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Town Bluff	1 hurt, $50,000	A tornado touched down in the eastern sections of Barlow Lake Estates, uprooting or snapping numerous trees. Twenty two telephone poles had to be replaced due to the damage. One tree landed on a mobile home, injuring one man. He suffered minor to moderate injuries and was treated and released at a local hospital. The max wind speed was estimated at 105 mph. The tornado cross the Neches River and dissipated in the forest.
June 2016	Flood	Town Bluff	$100,000	Heavy rain during the end of May produced flash flooding across areas upstream of B. A. Steinhagen Lake. Even one small earthen dam failed near Colmesneil. This flood wave traveled down the Neches flooding areas south of Dam B including some homes in the Barlow Lake and Sheffields Ferry Communities.
December 2013	Tornado (EF1)	Town Bluff	$75,000	A fast moving tornado touched down near FM1746, blowing down or snapping off several trees. While it was crossing FM92, it ripped off part of the metal roof of a small rural grocery store. Eyewitnesses saw the tornado at the Corp of Engineers office across the street. The sheet metal from the roof was blown into the COE park and damaged several picnic areas, and snapped off several more trees.
May 1999	Tornado (F0)	Town Bluff	$25,000	no account filed
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Town Bluff	$2,000	Trees downed on Highway 92 along the west side of BA Steinhagen Lake.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Town Bluff	$2,000	Trees were blown down.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Town Bluff	$2,000	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Town Bluff	$2,000	no account filed
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Town Bluff	-	A tree was blown down onto Highway 92 near Dam B.
April 2017	Hail	Town Bluff	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tyler 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Oldham	4.3 miles	12
Emille	5.8 miles	11
Spurger	6.6 miles	12
Haralson Lakes	12.1 miles	12
Woodville	12.5 miles	12
Doucette	13.3 miles	12
Hillister	13.5 miles	13
Fox Landing	14.3 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034886. 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.