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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Cheapside quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Cuero quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
26 since 2006Regional 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 burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VERNON MAY |
| 8 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 1 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE AT OIL PAD SITE |
| 20 July 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ELDER RD 104 COUNTY |
| 17 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM466 W. 2MILES |
| 13 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BLAKE MUIR |
| 1 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BELLVUE CMETARY RD / OLIVER RD GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheapside | $10,000 | Trees were reported to have been blown down by severe thunderstorm winds. |
| November 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Cheapside | $5,000 | A small and short-lived tornado touched down briefly in the Cheapside community. It damage about a dozen trees but caused no other damage. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Cheapside | - | 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 2009 | Hail | Cheapside | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Cheapside | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Cheapside | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pilgrim | 6.4 miles | 10 | |
| Sample | 7.6 miles | 11 | |
| Hamon | 9.2 miles | 9 | |
| Dreyer | 9.2 miles | 10 | |
| Glaze City | 10.8 miles | 9 | |
| Wrightsboro | 10.8 miles | 10 | |
| Yokum | 11.7 miles | 11 | |
| Smiley | 12.4 miles | 10 |
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.



