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Cypress Mill, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Johnson City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78663. It stands on Cleveland Branch. The Survey maps it on the Round Mountain quadrangle.

Cypress Mill within Blanco County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

74 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Cypress Mill between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,811 acres in total. 2 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 burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2

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
18 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2107 SHOVEL MTN RD
15 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2017Debris and open burning7.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH PILES
8 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1980
12 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE 962 EAST
7 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONTROL BURN
27 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTIELER FIRE
27 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHOVEL MTN RD #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blanco County

Storms near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cypress Mill in 8 storm reports between 2006 and 2018: 4 flash flood, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2007Flash FloodCypress Mill$100,000Two lines of thunderstorms, one moving south from the Dallas area and one moving southeast from the Abilene area, intersected and stalled near Marble Falls, producing rainfall of 8 to 10 inches in extreme northern Blanco County with up to 14 inches near Round Mountain. Flash flooding developed in the early morning hours and continued into mid morning, resulting in the closing of most roads in northern Blanco County. Among the major roads closed due to high water were FM962 and US281.
June 2018Flash FloodCypress Mill-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding washing away a vehicle near Cypress Creek. No injuries were reported.
July 2017HailCypress Mill-A thunderstorm produced penny size hail north of Pedernales Falls State Park.
April 2015HailCypress Mill-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail covering the ground.
April 2009HailCypress Mill-A park ranger reported penny size hail in Pedernales Falls State Park.
October 2009Flash FloodCypress Mill-Heavy rain caused flooding which closed County Road 962 near Cypress Mill.
May 2006Flash FloodCypress Mill-Rainfall of between 2 and 3 inches in the Cypress Mill area caused flash flooding in the early morning hours. Among the roads closed was FM962.
March 2011HailCypress Mill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blanco 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
Round Mountain6.1 miles14
Johnson City11.2 miles15
Sandy11.7 miles15
Post Oak16.3 miles12
Westbrook (historical)16.5 miles12
Rocky Creek17.1 miles12
Blowout17.9 miles11
Payton18.7 miles15

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 Cypress MillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113648991The 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 1379628. 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.