Circleville, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Taylor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76574. It stands on Pecan Branch. The Survey maps it on the Granger quadrangle.
On record in Circleville
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- McFadin Houselisted 1980 · 0.6 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1885 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
- 1887 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1964 USGS Granger quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
27 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Circleville between 2008 and 2017, burning about 48 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 | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SANDY LN |
| 22 September 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | N MAIN |
| 6 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1301 W. SECOND ST. |
| 21 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 13-0000909 |
| 10 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NORTH MAIN |
| 10 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD 160& 101 |
| 28 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CARLOS PARKER |
| 21 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1251 CR 410 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Circleville in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2019: 3 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Flash Flood | Circleville | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing a low water crossing on Hwy 95 north of Taylor. A video showed water about halfway up the tires of a truck. |
| April 2019 | Flash Flood | Circleville | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing Hwy 95 and Hwy 29 |along the San Gabriel River northeast of Circleville. |
| December 2018 | Flash Flood | Circleville | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing E State Hwy 29 at CR 337 due to water over the roadways. Water spilled out of a drainage ditch near the intersection. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterloo | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Wuthrich Hill | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Taylor | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Hoxie | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Granger | 5.6 miles | 15 | |
| Frame Switch | 5.6 miles | 15 | |
| Jonah | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Mozo | 6.0 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379550. 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.





