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Golly, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Westhoff-Arneckville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77954. It stands on Fivemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Meyersville quadrangle.

Golly within DeWitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

62 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Golly between 2005 and 2020, burning about 803 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
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 236 MOODY
27 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceORT ROAD FIRE
1 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMISSION VALLEY ACRES
7 August 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHN BREWER
6 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service616
24 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 236 HAY BALES
24 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 236 HAY BALE #2
21 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLLOYD LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeWitt 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
Meyersville2.9 miles7
Arneckeville3.4 miles7
Upper Meyersville4.8 miles7
Thomaston6.8 miles7
Verhelle7.8 miles9
Cuero10.5 miles10
Yorktown13.0 miles8
Lindenau13.3 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379842. 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.