Halsted, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the La Grange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78945. It stands on Wertzner Creek. The Survey maps it on the La Grange East quadrangle.

Halsted 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.

1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS La Grange East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Halsted between 1993 and 2011, burning about 268 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 burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4

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
29 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 28
28 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH BRANCH - 129
17 August 1997	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 June 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
31 May 2003	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 16
27 April 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WESSELS RD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Halsted: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Halsted Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Flint, Gravel
Pit No. 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Thorstenberg Baca Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Joiner	1.4 miles	10
Gay Hill	1.8 miles	10
Rutersville	2.9 miles	10
Park	3.1 miles	10
Tamberg	3.3 miles	11
Mullins Prairie	4.2 miles	10
Cozy Corner	4.8 miles	10
Oldenburg	4.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379883. 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.