BlockCost, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cost-Wrightsboro census division. It stands on Williams Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cost quadrangle. It stands 371 feet above sea level.
On record in Cost
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 1 record
First Shot Monuments Historic Districtlisted 2017
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1920 USGS Smiley quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Cost quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Cuero quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Cost between 2006 and 2015, burning about 23 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 | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HORNUNG |
| 18 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 February 2006 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 February 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 90WFIRE |
| 7 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAYFEILD ON CR140 |
| 3 January 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 13-0003 |
| 11 January 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cost in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cost | $150,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew roofs off buildings just south of Cost. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cost | $5,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew down trees and power lines in Cost. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Cost | - | A thunderstorm produced 1.5 inch hail near FM 1116 and CR 195 south of Gonzales. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summerville | 3.3 miles | 10 | |
| Monthalia | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Wrightsboro | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| Oak Forest | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Bebe | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Gonzales | 6.0 miles | 12 | |
| Smithville | 7.3 miles | 14 | |
| Slayden | 9.5 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Cost | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5174734 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1333401. 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.