Deanville, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Caldwell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77836. It lies near Wolphen Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Deanville quadrangle. 63 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 371 feet above sea level.
On record in Deanville
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Deanville Railway Depot, 6565 Farm to Market Road 111, Deanvillefederal building survey, 1 photograph
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1919 USGS Dime Box quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Deanville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
120 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Deanville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 542 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 were 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 | 59 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 38 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE CR 424 & CR433 |
| 30 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BASSLER ROW |
| 30 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | DEANVILLE BALL PARK |
| 29 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ZGAYBY HAY FIRE |
| 27 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deanville in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2012 | Tornado (EF1) | Deanville | $200,000 | An EF-1 tornado cut a swath of damage that extended from just northeast of Deanville to just southeast of Caldwell with damage along the southern portion of that area where numerous trees were snapped or uprooted. One house was pushed off a cinder block base then dragged along a curved path for about 100 feet. A feed trailer was lifted over a fence then rolled about 150 feet. Several sheds and barns were destroyed. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deanville | $25,000 | A metal structure was badly damaged with a couple downed power lines in the Deanville area. |
| March 2000 | Hail | Deanville | $25,000 | Nickel sized hail covered the ground. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deanville | $15,000 | Trees down. |
| May 2015 | Lightning | Deanville | $10,000 | An oil storage tank truck was struck by lightning. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Deanville | $10,000 | Flash flooding closed roads from the Deanville area to Snook to the Somerville Lake area. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deanville | $8,000 | Trees and power lines down. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deanville | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines along FM 111. |
| January 1998 | Hail | Deanville | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Deanville | $1,000 | 0.75 inch hail. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Deanville | - | A member of the public reported 1.5 inch hail near Deanville. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Deanville | - | A member of the public reported hail near Deanville. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deanville | - | Severe storm winds caused tree damage in the town of Deanville. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Deanville | - | Quarter sized hail was reported near Deanville. |
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.
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 Deanville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5246794 | 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 1355793. 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.



