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Camilla, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Coldspring census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77331. The Survey maps it on the Camilla quadrangle.

Camilla within San Jacinto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Camilla between 1992 and 2019, burning about 309 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePHILLIP 66 STATION
28 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePINEY
27 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresBig Thicket National ParkTFS 584
24 August 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8078
24 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAMILLA COVES
20 August 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 55

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Jacinto 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 Camilla: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Goodrich Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Jacinto County

Storms near this place

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camilla in 7 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
October 2006Flash FloodCamilla$13,000FM 3128 closed due to high water. Water over Shell Oil Road near FM 2025 in the Sam Houston National Forest.
May 2006HailCamilla$2,000Penny size hail.
January 2024Funnel CloudCamilla-A local news outlet reported a possible waterspout over Lake Livingston. Photographic evidence and investigations after the event did not show any evidence that a tornado touched down over land on either side of the Lake.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindCamilla-Wind gust occurred at a mesonet site.
October 2013Flash FloodCamilla-There were road clousures due to flooding in and around the Camilla area.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCamilla-Trees down in the Huffman Creek and FM 222 area.
October 2009Flash FloodCamilla-Farm to Market Road 3128 closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in San Jacinto 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
Rose Hill2.3 miles14
Coldspring3.8 miles13
Wolf Creek5.5 miles13
Urbana6.0 miles12
Liberty Hill7.4 miles13
Shepherd7.7 miles13
Laurel Hill8.2 miles13
Spring Hill8.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381571. 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.