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Cele, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Northeast Travis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78653. The Survey maps it on the Pflugerville East quadrangle.

Cele within Travis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

47 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Cele between 2005 and 2017, burning about 1,741 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism4
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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined325 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHODDE LANE FIRE
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2015Debris and open burning1,200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLLANO CO.
28 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15-0001126
26 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14-0000932
24 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000806
19 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000778
16 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15-0001076

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Storms near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cele in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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
May 2021Flash FloodCele-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Several low water crossings were flooded along Cameron Rd. near Cele.
April 2021HailCele-A thunderstorm produced two inch diameter hail near Pflugerville.
May 2017HailCele-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail northeast of Pflugerville.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindCele-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 58 kts.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindCele-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that blew down signs and blew the siding off buildings.
October 2013Flash FloodCele-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding in Pflugerville. Several roads and low water crossings were not passable due to rising water.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindCele-A thunderstorm associated with a strong arctic cold front produced a measured gust of 61 knots.

Every storm recorded in Travis 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
New Sweden2.3 miles17
Carlson3.9 miles17
Manda3.9 miles17
Pflugerville5.2 miles17
Ward Spring6.3 miles17
New Katy6.5 miles17
Dessau6.7 miles17
Windemere6.8 miles17

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 CeleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5057553The 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 1379522. 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.

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.