Eloise, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Reagan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76680. It stands on Cottonmouth Creek. The Survey maps it on the Baileyville quadrangle.

Eloise within Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Baileyville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

37 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Eloise between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,144 acres in total. 1 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 burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2016-122
6 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STEELE RD. FIRE
7 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011-095
15 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDERVILLE FIRE
7 July 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BAILEYVILLE
23 July 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2159 FIRE
20 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eloise in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
October 2013	Flash Flood	Eloise	$20,000	Heavy thunderstorms produced flash flooding in southern Falls County. FM 1373 was underwater between FM 413 and HWY 6. High water was reported on HWY 6 where it crosses Little Brazos River. Water was also reported on FM 2413 and FM 46. Nearly 8-10 of rain fell over the area in just a few hours.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Eloise	-	Multiple trees were blown down in the town of Eloise.

Every storm recorded in Falls 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
Highbank	3.5 miles	7
Beacon	4.1 miles	7
Wilderville	4.1 miles	7
Coymack	4.3 miles	7
Pleasant Grove	5.1 miles	7
Reagan	6.7 miles	7
Cedar Springs	7.0 miles	7
Rosebud	9.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379721. 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.