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Deweesville, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Falls City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78113. The Survey maps it on the Falls City quadrangle.

Deweesville within Karnes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Deweesville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 115 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
8 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKARNES COUNTY CR197
15 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTOM GILMORE
8 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEOG RESOURCES
28 April 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKARNES ELECTRIC FM1144
5 December 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceORR FAMILY FOUNDATION
22 November 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSAM BASSBETT
7 January 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 January 2006Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Karnes County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Deweesville: 22 past producers, 18 producers, 5 occurrences. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Molybdenum, Selenium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brayil PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Galen MineUranium, Molybdenum, SeleniumPast ProducerStratabound
Hackney MineUranium, MolybdenumPast Producer1954
Bargmann-Hackney MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Bozo PitUraniumProducer
Brown Uranium PitUraniumProducer
Brysch MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Butler MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Butler PitUraniumPast Producer
Carriger ProspectUraniumOccurrenceStratabound

Every working recorded in Karnes 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
Mays Crossing4.4 miles12
Conquista Crossing4.5 miles12
Coy City7.0 miles11
Falls City7.9 miles12
Hobson8.3 miles9
Mayo10.7 miles9
Lenz11.0 miles8
Karnes City11.9 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122558920The 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 2034705. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.