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Vealmoor, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Big Spring North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79720. The Survey maps it on the Vealmoor quadrangle.

Vealmoor within Howard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Vealmoor between 2006 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
1 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 235
8 April 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2011Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePETERSON
30 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 54 & FM 669
2 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 February 2008Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 February 2008Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howard 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 Vealmoor: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cope Sand and Gravel OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit & Plant No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Howard County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vealmoor in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2005: 3 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1993HailVealmoor$50no account filed
June 2005HailVealmoor-Farmers near the Borden and Howard County line reported extensive loss to cotton crops due to wind driven hail.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindVealmoor-Farmers near the Borden and Howard County line reported extensive loss to cotton crops due to wind driven hail. At least 20,000 acres of cotton were destroyed as the slow moving tornadic storm propagated over southern Borden and northern Howard County. Hail up to the size of pennies combined with destructive winds estimated to be between 70 and 80 MPH to produce widespread agricultural losses.
June 2005Flash FloodVealmoor-The Texas Department of Transportation reported that several secondary roads near Vealmoor were inundated by high water.
May 1993HailVealmoor-A large severe thunderstorm complex produced dime to golf ball-size hail near the Martin/Howard/Borden county intersection. Minor damage to crops and vehicles resulted from the hail.

Every storm recorded in Howard 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
Luther8.0 miles10
Knott9.0 miles9
Fairview11.7 miles9
Vincent18.5 miles9
Ziler19.2 miles11
Big Spring19.3 miles11
Midway20.0 miles10
Sand Springs20.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1349214. 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.