Wamba, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Texarkana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75503. The Survey maps it on the Barkman quadrangle. It stands 354 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1950 USGS Barkman quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1951 USGS Barkman quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
160 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Wamba between 1993 and 2017, burning about 1,141 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 were 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 | 79 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 47 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3406 GIN RD |
| 8 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6296 |
| 5 September 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 366 |
| 4 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 181 |
| 30 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 22 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RIVERIDGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wamba in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Wamba | $20,000 | An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 95 mph briefly touched down and was documented on a smart phone camera crossing from Clem Ranch and moving northwest adjacent to a pond. The tornado tore portions of the roof off of a single family home and topped off the trunks of two trees before lifting as it crossed Akin Road. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wamba | - | Trees down on Arnold Lane near the Red Lick community. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wamba | - | Several trees were blown down in the Red Lick community. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Wamba | - | Excessive heavy rainfall closed Richland Road near Pleasant Grove. |
| March 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wamba | - | Trees were reported downed in the Wamba community. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Lick | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Nash | 4.4 miles | 18 | |
| Whatley | 4.5 miles | 21 | |
| Leary | 5.2 miles | 18 | |
| Wake Village | 5.6 miles | 21 | |
| Red Bank | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| Barkman | 6.3 miles | 13 | |
| Victory City | 6.4 miles | 18 |
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 Wamba | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7966915 | 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 1370842. 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.





