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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.

Circleville within Williamson County

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

27 since 2008

Regional 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 burning13
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
6 September 2015Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSANDY LN
22 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN MAIN
6 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1301 W. SECOND ST.
21 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-0000909
10 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH MAIN
10 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 160& 101
28 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARLOS PARKER
21 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1251 CR 410

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2019Flash FloodCircleville-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 2019Flash FloodCircleville-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing Hwy 95 and Hwy 29 |along the San Gabriel River northeast of Circleville.
December 2018Flash FloodCircleville-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.

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Waterloo2.5 miles15
Wuthrich Hill4.1 miles14
Taylor4.8 miles15
Hoxie4.9 miles14
Granger5.6 miles15
Frame Switch5.6 miles15
Jonah5.6 miles17
Mozo6.0 miles17

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.