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Veribest, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the East Tom Green census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76861. The Survey maps it on the Veribest quadrangle. It stands 1,821 feet above sea level.

Veribest within Tom Green County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

42 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Veribest between 2005 and 2020, burning about 194 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
1 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2013Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7200 BLK FM 380
21 August 2008Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2012Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMULLINS CROSSING
9 July 2005Debris and open burning12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tom Green County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Veribest in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1998Tornado (F1)Veribest2 hurt, $1,300,000A tornado destroyed 2 mobile homes, injuring two of the occupants inside one of them
June 1996HailVeribest$100,000no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindVeribest$25,000Strong thunderstorm winds did significant damage to a dairy near Veribest. It destroyed several barns and pens and tore the roof off of a mobile home.
March 2002Tornado (F1)Veribest$10,000A tornado traveled a 4 mile path across eastern Tom Green County, producing relatively minor damage. The tornado ripped part of a flat roof off of an outbuilding, threw several irrigation pipes a few hundred yards, and picked up and moved heavy steel pipes.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindVeribest$1,000About 12 utility poles were knocked down by the thunderstorm winds.
September 2024Flash FloodVeribest-At 735 AM CDT, the Tom Green County Sheriff Office received a call about a vehicle truck that was swept away by swift water currents in the flooded area of McMillan and Wright Roads in northeastern Tom Green County. The truck was swept approximately 150 yards from the roadway, to near a tree. The cab of the truck was submerged, and the occupants were clinging to the tree above the flood waters. All of the 5 victims were successfully rescued by first responders from the Tom Green County Sheriff Office and the San Angelo Fire Department. The Texas Department of Public Safety and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department were also involved in the rescue efforts.
May 2023HailVeribest-The public reported tennis ball size hail falling 4 miles north-northeast of Veribest and was posted on Facebook.
June 2019FloodVeribest-A COOP observer reported flooding with water 18 to 20 inches deep.
May 2017HailVeribest-Golf ball size hail was reported by the public around Veribest.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindVeribest-A thirty foot pine tree was snapped at approximately the 10 foot tree level. Dime size hail was also reported.
May 2010Flash FloodVeribest-A storm chaser reporter water over Hawk Avenue near FM 765.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindVeribest-A trained spotter reported three power poles were blown down along Farm to Market Road 765 east of San Angelo.
May 1998HailVeribest-Baseball size hail
May 1998HailVeribest-Baseball size hail
June 2003Flash FloodVeribest-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindVeribest-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tom Green 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
Sixmile Crossing4.4 miles13
Mullins Crossing4.7 miles14
Harriet5.8 miles15
Sixteen Mile Crossing6.2 miles14
Mereta6.4 miles11
Seventeen Mile Crossing7.0 miles14
Wall7.5 miles13
Alvery Junction8.4 miles17

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 VeribestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3470442The 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 1370620. 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.