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Tulsita, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pettus-Pawnee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78146. The Survey maps it on the Tulsita quadrangle. 31 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 318 feet above sea level.

Tulsita within Bee County

Population over time

2 figures

Tulsita grew from 14 to 31 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201014
202031+17 (+121%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

35 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Tulsita between 2005 and 2020, burning about 669 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGARZA
8 September 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARK KIRKHAM
8 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY623
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWRIGHT
25 August 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJAY TENBERG
18 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service623
15 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHALL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tulsita: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Moore Materials Co IncStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tulsita in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindTulsita$10,000Trees were blown down along Farm to Market Road 798 near Tulsita.

Every storm recorded in Bee 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
Pettus1.9 miles9
Caesar4.4 miles10
Tuleta5.1 miles9
Monteola6.5 miles10
Mineral8.0 miles9
Normanna8.0 miles9
Pawnee9.9 miles9
Oaks11.7 miles9

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 TulsitaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970074The 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 1370201. 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.