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Aley, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75143. The Survey maps it on the Styx quadrangle. It stands 358 feet above sea level.

Aley within Henderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

91 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Aley between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,323 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-396
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPFD
4 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCFALL
25 September 2005Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Aley: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jomac Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aley in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
December 1999Thunderstorm WindAley$25,000A roof was blown off a porch and a mobile home was damaged by strong thunderstorm winds. Several barns and outbuildings were also damaged. The event occurred in Gun Barrell City.
October 2010HailAley$17,000Golf ball size hail increased to baseball size hail in Seven Points.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAley$15,000Numerous trees were down across the county. An estimated 100 trees were down in the western half of the county. Dozens of downed trees were estimated in the eastern portions of the county. A large tree fell over the road at an intersection of FM 804 to the southeast of Athens. Approximately 5,000 electric customers were without power in the western half of the county.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAley$10,000Amateur radio reported a tree blown onto a home near the city of Seven Points, TX.
October 2009Flash FloodAley$10,000Several roads were closed in the Styx area and in Arnold Hills in Seven Points. Also, CRs 2100 and 2138 south were closed. Some of these roads were washed out.
April 2026HailAley$7,000Social media video showed hail ranging from quarters to golf balls falling in Seven Points.
June 2011HailAley$1,000no account filed
April 2026HailAley-Amateur Radio reported quarter size hail 1 mile south of Seven Points.
May 2025HailAley-An emergency manager reported quarter to ping pong ball size hail south of Kemp.
April 2020HailAley-Quarter sized hail was reported in Seven Points.
October 2014HailAley-Amateur radio operators reported penny to nickel sized hail in the city of Seven Points.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindAley-A 60 mph wind gust was estimated in Seven Points.
September 1998Flash FloodAley-Several county roads were flooded and closed near Aley.

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
Harmony0.7 miles9
Seven Points2.3 miles12
Buffalo3.6 miles9
Gun Barrel City5.7 miles12
Tool5.9 miles12
Enchanted Oaks8.7 miles14
Payne Springs10.5 miles14
Pauline10.8 miles14

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 AleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076400The 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 2034834. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.