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Downsville, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Waco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76706. The Survey maps it on the Robinson quadrangle.

Downsville within McLennan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 15 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

81 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Downsville between 2001 and 2020, burning about 835 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Smoking1

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
9 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE - CHINA SPRING
8 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePOWERLINE
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND/GRASS FIRE
29 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJUNIPER LANE FIRE
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND/GRASS FIRE
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND/GRASS FIRE
25 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-2680028
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND/GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLennan County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Downsville: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
H and B No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Luckett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Neeley Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in McLennan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Downsville in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindDownsville-Uprooted or snapped trees were reported via mPING.

Every storm recorded in McLennan 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
Downs0.2 miles15
Robinson2.7 miles15
Asa2.9 miles15
Rosenthal3.2 miles15
Neale5.2 miles18
Harrison5.9 miles8
Levi6.2 miles15
Beverly6.2 miles19

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 Q104872157The 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 1356234. 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.

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.