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Freyburg, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Schulenburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78956. The Survey maps it on the Swiss Alp quadrangle.

Freyburg within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Freyburg between 1993 and 2017, burning about 426 acres in total. 1 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking5
Natural1
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
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freyburg in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
April 2023HailFreyburg-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail between Muldoon and Freyburg.
May 2015Tornado (EF1)Freyburg-A NWS storm survey team concluded a tornado touched down just west of Swiss Alp and moved northeast for four miles. Two homes sustained substantial roof damage. Several trees were snapped at their trunks. Multiple barns sustained roof damage and a few small structures were destroyed. Peak winds were estimated at 105 mph.
May 2023HailFreyburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
High Hill3.4 miles10
Swiss Alp3.5 miles10
O'Quinn4.4 miles10
Engle5.8 miles11
Ammannsville6.1 miles10
Schulenburg6.2 miles10
Hostyn6.6 miles10
Muldoon6.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378328. 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.