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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.

Wamba within Bowie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

160 since 1993

Regional 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 burning79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 1995Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3406 GIN RD
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6296
5 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 366
4 September 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 181
30 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2006Debris and open burning22 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIVERIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie County

Storms near this place

5 since 2014

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Tornado (EF1)Wamba$20,000An 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 2025Thunderstorm WindWamba-Trees down on Arnold Lane near the Red Lick community.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindWamba-Several trees were blown down in the Red Lick community.
May 2015Flash FloodWamba-Excessive heavy rainfall closed Richland Road near Pleasant Grove.
March 2014Thunderstorm WindWamba-Trees were reported downed in the Wamba community.

Every storm recorded in Bowie 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
Red Lick3.6 miles18
Nash4.4 miles18
Whatley4.5 miles21
Leary5.2 miles18
Wake Village5.6 miles21
Red Bank6.2 miles13
Barkman6.3 miles13
Victory City6.4 miles18

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 WambaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7966915The 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.