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Arneckeville, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Westhoff-Arneckville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77954. The Survey maps it on the Meyersville quadrangle.

Arneckeville within DeWitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

55 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Arneckeville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 318 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
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
6 September 2006Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMICHAEL RATH
27 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMICHAEL RATH
7 August 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHN BREWER
21 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLLOYD LANE
11 August 2016Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLUCAS LANE
1 August 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUELLER-LANGE RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeWitt County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Arneckeville: 2 producers. 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
C W and A IncorporatedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in DeWitt County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arneckeville in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 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
June 2015Flash FloodArneckeville-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding of a low water crossing on Mission Valley Rd. near FM236.

Every storm recorded in DeWitt 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
Golly3.4 miles7
Meyersville4.9 miles7
Verhelle5.5 miles9
Thomaston6.2 miles7
Upper Meyersville6.4 miles7
Cuero7.1 miles10
Lindenau10.1 miles10
Buchel11.5 miles10

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 ArneckevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22073165The 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 1379362. 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.