BlockVandyke, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Comanche census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76442. It stands on Duncan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Comanche quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1889 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1969 USGS Comanche quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Comanche quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
124 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Vandyke between 2006 and 2019, burning about 1,214 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 | 62 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2861 |
| 5 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 850 CR 408 |
| 30 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RUSH CREEK FIRE |
| 3 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ALDERMAN FIRE |
| 21 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CARRUTH HAY FIRE |
| 16 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRUCK FIRE @ ALLSUP |
| 13 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6610 HWY 2318 |
| 13 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6810 HWY 2318 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vandyke in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vandyke | $20,000 | An attached garage collapsed from thunderstorm winds. A car and other contents of the garage were damaged. This damage was located along TX 16 about 5 miles north of the City of Comanche. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Vandyke | $10,000 | Hen-egg size hail was reported near Comanche. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Vandyke | $10,000 | Hail ranging in size from nickels to half-dollars fell in a large swath near the intersection of CR 413 and Highway 16. The amount of hail created hail fog. Several cars were damaged. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Vandyke | $1,000 | Golfball sized hail was reported at the intersection of County Road 416 and Farm-to-Market Road 2861 about 5 miles northeast of Comanche. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Vandyke | - | Comanche County Dispatch reported that County Road 420 was closed near Proctor Lake due to flood waters. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vandyke | - | A social media report indicated that a few trees were blown down in Vandyke, or just north of Comanche. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Vandyke | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Vandyke | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Vandyke | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q110912995 | 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 1379207. 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.