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Calaveras, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Floresville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78114. It stands on Calaveras Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saspamco quadrangle.

Calaveras within Wilson 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

108 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Calaveras between 2006 and 2015, burning about 1,384 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMASON
29 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCUELLAR
21 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIELEY
31 August 2006Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Calaveras: 8 producers, 4 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
W S Dickey Clay Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alamo PitsClayProducerSedimentary
Barnhart PitClayProducer
Bell PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Bernhardt PitClayProducerSedimentary
Bruce PitClayProducerSedimentary
Calaveras Unnamed PitClayPast ProducerClay
Ermler PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Saspamco PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Wilson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calaveras in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
June 2010Flash FloodCalaveras$50,000Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flooding and the evacuation of several homes near Calaveras.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindCalaveras-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down some large tree limbs on FM775 just west of Hwy 181. This storm also produced quarter size hail.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindCalaveras-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down power lines on FM775 between Hwy 181 and CR128.
April 2015HailCalaveras-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wilson 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
Saspamco2.1 miles9
Canada Verde2.2 miles9
Graytown3.3 miles9
Kicaster6.7 miles10
Grass Pond Colony7.2 miles10
Floresville8.2 miles10
Fairview8.3 miles9
Loire10.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1353527. 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.