BlockBefore

Ace, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Livingston-Onalaska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77351. It stands on Ace Emanuel Branch. The Survey maps it on the Schwab City quadrangle. It stands 174 feet above sea level.

Ace within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

54 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Ace between 1993 and 2019, burning about 274 acres in total. 1 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSAN JACINTO 15:00
8 September 1993Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 321
22 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 322
10 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINDING CREEK
30 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceELMORE LOOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ace in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
April 1997Thunderstorm WindAce$7,000no account filed
April 1997HailAce$5,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAce-Trees were downed in the Ace area.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindAce-Trees were downed near the intersection of County Road 2550 and Highway 146.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindAce-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Schwab City3.9 miles12
Holly Grove6.3 miles12
Segno7.8 miles12
Goodrich8.0 miles12
Providence9.6 miles12
New Hope9.8 miles12
Lamont10.7 miles12
Indian Springs11.6 miles12

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 AceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4672936The 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 1379311. 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.