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Cheapside, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cost-Wrightsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77954. The Survey maps it on the Cheapside quadrangle.

Cheapside within Gonzales 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

26 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Cheapside between 2006 and 2020, burning about 786 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
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
26 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVERNON MAY
8 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2008Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE AT OIL PAD SITE
20 July 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceELDER RD 104 COUNTY
17 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM466 W. 2MILES
13 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLAKE MUIR
1 June 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVUE CMETARY RD / OLIVER RD GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gonzales County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cheapside in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
February 1998Thunderstorm WindCheapside$10,000Trees were reported to have been blown down by severe thunderstorm winds.
November 2000Tornado (F0)Cheapside$5,000A small and short-lived tornado touched down briefly in the Cheapside community. It damage about a dozen trees but caused no other damage.
July 2007Flash FloodCheapside-Thunderstorms in the Cheapside area dropped between 3 and 4 inches of rain in two hours, causing flash flooding that closed FM766 and FM2067.
August 2009HailCheapside-no account filed
April 2007Funnel CloudCheapside-no account filed
June 1998HailCheapside-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gonzales 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
Pilgrim6.4 miles10
Sample7.6 miles11
Hamon9.2 miles9
Dreyer9.2 miles10
Glaze City10.8 miles9
Wrightsboro10.8 miles10
Yokum11.7 miles11
Smiley12.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1354334. 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.