BlockCologne, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Goliad North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77905. It stands on Payton Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fannin quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Fannin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Goliad quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
50 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Cologne between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,901 acres in total. 1 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 | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COLETOVILLE RD #2 |
| 2 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | COLETOVILLE |
| 13 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | KEMPER CITY |
| 10 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SCHUBERT |
| 10 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 59 S FIRE |
| 9 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | COLETOVILLE |
| 9 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WEST OAKS |
| 8 August 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KEMPER CITY RD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cologne in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2012: 1 lightning, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2004 | Lightning | Cologne | $200,000 | Lightning struck and set a home on fire in the Lakewood subdivision. The home was a total loss. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Cologne | - | Nickel sized hail occurred near Coleto Creek Reservoir. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379579. 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.