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Westover, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Seymour Rural census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76380. The Survey maps it on the Westover quadrangle.

Westover within Baylor 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

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Westover between 2005 and 2020, burning about 5,404 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWESTOVER
16 September 2017Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIVINGSTON FARM
21 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHALL ROAD(GRASS)
28 July 2006Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 July 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKEITH RES
22 July 2020Natural150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE BAYLOR CO
10 July 2018Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWESTOVER GRASS FIRE
14 December 2008Debris and open burning100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baylor County

Storms near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westover in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 15 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2002Thunderstorm WindWestover$10Large tree limbs were downed.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindWestover-No damage reported.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindWestover-No damage was reported.
May 2012HailWestover-No damage was reported.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindWestover-Half dollar size hail was also reported along with the 60 mph wind gusts. No damage was reported.
July 2002Funnel CloudWestover-This funnel cloud was observed by the Megargel Fire Department from Archer County and was described as very thin and extending very close to the ground.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindWestover-Thunderstorms in the western part of north Texas late on the 29th and early on the 30th produced damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds damaged roofs, carports, and trees and downed power lines in Munday, downed power lines in Quanah, tore the roofs off barns, and broke off large tree limbs in Goodlett, broke power poles, damaged roofs, and blew a cattle trailer over near Crowell, and ripped a roof off an abandoned house eight miles south-southwest of Crowell.
June 2022HailWestover-no account filed
May 2019HailWestover-no account filed
June 2019HailWestover-no account filed
May 2014HailWestover-no account filed
May 2014HailWestover-no account filed
August 2013HailWestover-no account filed
May 2012HailWestover-no account filed
October 2011HailWestover-no account filed
March 2007Thunderstorm WindWestover-no account filed
April 2004HailWestover-no account filed
June 2003HailWestover-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindWestover-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindWestover-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindWestover-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindWestover-no account filed
April 2000HailWestover-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWestover-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWestover-no account filed
May 1994HailWestover-no account filed
February 1994HailWestover-no account filed
October 1993HailWestover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baylor 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
Round Timber5.1 miles8
Ogden10.5 miles7
Lively10.9 miles7
Fulda13.1 miles7
Mabelle13.5 miles7
Seymour14.5 miles7
Bomarton21.7 miles7
Red Springs22.4 miles7

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 WestoverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q112980167The 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 1380762. 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.