BlockEsseville, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Three Rivers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78119. It lies near McCoy Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Peggy quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Suniland quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Peggy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
74 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Esseville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 546 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 use | 57 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRVFD2018107 |
| 8 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | IH 37 MARKER 86 |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MM 84 GRASS FIRE |
| 2 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MM 80 GRASS FIRE |
| 17 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNDER 99 BRIDGE GRASS FIRE |
| 15 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MARKER 82 GRASS FIRE |
| 12 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 91216 |
| 8 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MM 88 GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Esseville: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dobie Pits | Uranium | Producer | ||
| House Pit | Uranium | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Esseville in 1 storm report in 2019: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Esseville | - | Flooding occurred along Interstate 37 between Three Rivers and Whitsett. |
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.
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 Q122567148 | 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 1379736. 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.