BlockDelhi, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Luling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78953. The Survey maps it on the Delhi quadrangle.
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.
- 1901 USGS Flatonia quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Delhi quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
55 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Delhi between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,426 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,030 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DELHI FIRE |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4000 FIRE |
| 30 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 15 |
| 28 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9371 FM 713 |
| 23 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 95 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delhi in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2018: 1 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2018 | Hail | Delhi | $20,000 | A thunderstorm produced baseball size hail near the intersection of Hwy 304 and Wolf Run Rd. that killed a cow and severely damaged a law enforcement vehicle in Delhi. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Delhi | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in a swift water rescue in Delhi off Hwy 304 where two vehicles were in the water. |
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 1378205. 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.