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Fitzhugh, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Dripping Springs-Wimberley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78736. It stands on Roy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dripping Springs quadrangle. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Fitzhugh within Hays County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

91 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Fitzhugh between 2005 and 2020, burning about 649 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service104241
16 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 345
7 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFITZHUGH ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hays County

Storms near this place

15 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fitzhugh in 15 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
May 2018Thunderstorm WindFitzhugh$25,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 80 mph that damaged a rain barn. The structure was essentially a canopy constructed with metal posts and trusses. Part of the metal roof was peeled off the structure and some of the trusses were knocked off the posts.
October 2013LightningFitzhugh$10,000A thunderstorm produced a lightning strike that caused a structural fire.
June 2023HailFitzhugh-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail north of Dripping Springs.
June 2023HailFitzhugh-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail east of Dripping Springs.
June 2023HailFitzhugh-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail north of Dripping Springs.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindFitzhugh-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph by a trained spotter near Bee Cave.
May 2019Flash FloodFitzhugh-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Several low water crossings in northern Hays County were closed with feet of water over the roads.
May 2016Flash FloodFitzhugh-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in a water rescue on Fitzhugh Rd. near Barton Creek and the Travis County line.
May 2015Flash FloodFitzhugh-Several roads across the county were reported to have 3 to 4 inches of water over them. Road closures included Cole Springs Road and Goforth Road in the city of Kyle.
June 2015Flash FloodFitzhugh-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding sending Barton Creek over Fitzhugh Rd. (FM101) with water up to the guardrails.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFitzhugh-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph snapped and uprooted multiple large trees and blew a wood fence approximately 30 yards.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFitzhugh-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 65 mph that uprooted large trees, snapped four inch diameter tree limbs, and damaged the roof of a barn.
May 2014HailFitzhugh-no account filed
March 2013HailFitzhugh-no account filed
January 2012HailFitzhugh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hays 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
Belterra4.3 miles19
Dripping Springs4.9 miles15
Bear Creek5.8 miles19
Driftwood8.4 miles15
Mount Gainor9.0 miles16
Henly10.3 miles16
Hays11.8 miles18
Hays City13.8 miles18

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 Q130066031The 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 1378296. 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.