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Vance, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Camp Wood-Leakey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78828. It lies near Bullhead Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Vance quadrangle.

Vance within Real County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Vance between 2006 and 2012, burning about 57 acres in total. 1 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
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Natural1

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
10 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMITCHELLS
15 June 2006Smoking3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 April 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 April 2006Natural40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOCKHART
10 February 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service335
31 December 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 January 2012Debris and open burning1.2 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD SONE RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Real County

Storms near this place

43 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vance in 43 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 29 hail, 10 flash flood, 4 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 2010HailVance$5,000A thunderstorm produced one and three quarter inch hail. The hail dented a car, destroyed shrubs and fruit on trees.
May 2010HailVance$5,000A thunderstorm produced one and one half inch hail which destroyed a sky light in a house. The hail was four inches deep a few places.
April 2013HailVance$1,000A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail that dented a car east of Barksdale.
March 2026HailVance-A thunderstorm produced hail up to grapefruit size south of Camp Wood.
April 2026HailVance-A thunderstorm produced chicken egg size hail between Barksdale and Camp Wood.
April 2026HailVance-A thunderstorm produced chicken egg size hail south of Camp Wood.
April 2026HailVance-A thunderstorm produced baseball size hail (picture on X) south of Camp Wood.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindVance-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 62 mph by the mesonet station at Camp Eagle southeast of Devil's Sinkhole State Natural Area.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindVance-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 50 kts by a mesonet station at Camp Eagle north of Vance.
July 2025Flash FloodVance-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing Ray McDonald Ranch Rd. at the Nueces River north of Camp Wood.
July 2025Flash FloodVance-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding sending five feet of water from Camp Wood Creek over RR 337 northeast of Camp Wood.
April 2024HailVance-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Camp Wood.
August 2022Flash FloodVance-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding that closed US 55 south of Camp Wood along the Nueces River. A trained spotter sent pictures of water over the road.
August 2022Flash FloodVance-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding in Real County. TxDOT closed Hwy 55 south of Camp Wood due to flooding.
May 2020HailVance-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail near Camp Wood.
May 2019HailVance-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Camp Wood.
May 2019HailVance-A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail in Camp Wood.
October 2018Flash FloodVance-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing FM 337 near Camp Wood Creek between Camp Wood and Leakey.
December 2018HailVance-A thunderstorm produced quarter to golf ball size hail in Camp Wood.
October 2018Flash FloodVance-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing Hwy 55 along the Nueces River north of Camp Wood.
October 2018Flash FloodVance-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing Hwy 55 south of Camp Wood and RM 337 east of town.
October 2018Flash FloodVance-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding in Camp Wood near the Nueces River. An observer reported 4.81 inches of rain in Camp Wood.
May 2017HailVance-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail northeast of Vance.
May 2017HailVance-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail southeast of Vance.
September 2016Flash FloodVance-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 55 south of Barksdale.
March 2016HailVance-A thunderstorm produced one inch hail that dented a car.
May 2015Flash FloodVance-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing RM 337 from mile marker 408 to mile marker 421 between Leakey and Camp Wood.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindVance-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 to 60 mph by a trained observer. No damage was reported.
March 2010HailVance-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail at two locations near Camp Wood.
April 2010HailVance-A thunderstorm produced severe size hail. The largest hail was 2.5 inches and the average size was 1.75 inches.
April 2010HailVance-A thunderstorm produced severe size hail. The largest hail was 2.5 inches and the average size was 1.75 inches.
May 2009HailVance-Hail was reported at Camp Eagle.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindVance-Several trees were reported blown over.
April 2008HailVance-An employee at Camp Eagle reported hail the size of nickels.
January 2017HailVance-no account filed
April 2017HailVance-no account filed
May 2016HailVance-no account filed
May 2014HailVance-no account filed
April 2013HailVance-no account filed
May 2010HailVance-no account filed
May 2010HailVance-no account filed
May 2009HailVance-no account filed
April 2008HailVance-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Real 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
Camp Wood10.1 miles13
Leakey14.7 miles8
Rio Frio19.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1370582. 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.