BlockAlleyton, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Columbus census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78935. It stands on Live Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Alleyton quadrangle. It stands 188 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Alleyton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Alleyton between 1997 and 2009, burning about 1,854 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2009 | Fireworks | 1,804 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | REESE LANE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 36 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Alleyton: 23 past producers, 13 producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thurstenburg Pit | Silica | Producer | ||
| Alleyton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| B. B. Pit No. 4 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Columbus Const Alleyton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Daley and Holland Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| Daley and Holland Plant and Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Helms Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| Horton and Horton Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Flint, Gravel | |
| Jayray Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| Sprint Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alleyton in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleyton | $50,000 | A semi truck and travel trailer were overturned near the westbound Interstate 10 area of Alleytown and Columbus. A mobile home was blown over, and there were also multiple trees blown down. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Alleyton | - | Flash flooding closed sections of FM 949 just off of Interstate 10. |
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.
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 Alleyton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3477725 | The 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 1329407. 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.