Elm Grove, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lockhart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78662. It stands on Cat Branch. The Survey maps it on the Red Rock quadrangle. It stands 568 feet above sea level.

Elm Grove within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1901 USGS Flatonia quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Red Rock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

191 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Elm Grove between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,968 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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	100
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	5
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	STEPHANIE LN
6 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH BRANCH - 113
5 September 2008	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PETTYTOWN FIRE
30 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 15
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	8810 TAYLORSVILLE ROAD
29 September 2008	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Taylorsville	0.7 miles	11
Pettytown	1.9 miles	11
McMahan	3.1 miles	15
Dale	4.8 miles	15
Delhi	6.5 miles	11
Saint Johns Colony	6.7 miles	15
Tilmon	7.3 miles	15
Seawillow	7.8 miles	15

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 Elm Grove	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48851202	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 1379715. 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.