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Woodbine, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Callisburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76240. The Survey maps it on the Woodbine quadrangle. 246 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 774 feet above sea level.

Woodbine within Cooke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

197 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of Woodbine between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,033 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning92
Missing data/not specified/undetermined63
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural1
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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLUB LAKE RD
30 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 107 & HWY 82
29 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM371
28 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooke County

Storms near this place

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodbine in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2013LightningWoodbine$50,000Lightning caused fires to two homes along Cooke County Road 224 early in the morning of June 6th. Fires destroyed an outdoor storage building, and an unnocupied house near the community of Woodbine.
October 2025Flash FloodWoodbine$20,000CR 224 was washed out due to floodwaters.
October 2025Flash FloodWoodbine$20,000Several water rescues were conducted in the eastern part of the county including at CR 123, 150, and 175.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindWoodbine$10,000The Cooke County Emergency Manager reported to the local newspaper that some homes near Lake Kiowa sustained roof damage from high thunderstorm winds.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindWoodbine$10,000Strong winds blew down signs, trees and a barn.
May 2024HailWoodbine$7,000Golf ball sized hail was reported at Lake Kiowa.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindWoodbine$5,000Emergency management reported that a roof was blown off of a mobile home near CR 209 in Woodbine, TX.
May 2011HailWoodbine$5,000Golfball sized hail was reported 3 miles southwest of Whitesboro near the Grayson/Cooke County line.
September 2011HailWoodbine$5,000Quarter to golfball-sized hail fell in Oak Ridge.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWoodbine$3,000Large trees were knocked down near Woodbine.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindWoodbine$1,000Emergency management reported that a power pole was blown down near the 800 block of CR 219 in Woodbine, TX.
March 2025HailWoodbine-Emergency manager relayed several reports of quarter sized hail near Lake Kiowa.
May 2024HailWoodbine-Spotter report of half-dollar sized hail in Woodbine, east of Gainesville, TX.
March 2023HailWoodbine-Dime to nickel size hail was reported in Woodbine.
March 2023HailWoodbine-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported in Lake Kiowa.
June 2016Flash FloodWoodbine-High water rescues were conducted on CR 212 where a mother and her 10 month old baby were rescued, and on CR 222 where 3 individuals were rescued from a pickup truck.
April 2014HailWoodbine-Nickel sized hail was reported by a trained spotter 3 miles west of Whitesboro, TX.
September 2011HailWoodbine-Penny-sized hail was reported in Oak Ridge.
April 2014HailWoodbine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cooke 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
Lake Kiowa2.3 miles13
Oak Ridge2.9 miles13
Shady Grove3.8 miles12
Custer City5.3 miles13
Cook5.9 miles13
Callisburg6.0 miles13
Gainesville6.3 miles13
Burns City6.9 miles13

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 WoodbineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711413The 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 1371902. 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.