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Harkeyville, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Richland Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76877. It stands on Flat Branch. The Survey maps it on the Algerita quadrangle.

Harkeyville within San Saba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

30 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Harkeyville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 731 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHORTION FIRE
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMALL FIRE
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGAVIN FIRE
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined90 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNK
17 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
6 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHORTON FIRE
5 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE 1031
4 July 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJACKSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Saba County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harkeyville in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025HailHarkeyville-A storm chaser reported ping pong ball size hail.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindHarkeyville-Several large branches were blown down. The largest branches were 12 inches in diameter and were 8 to 10 feet long.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindHarkeyville-A few tree limbs were reported down as well as damage to the roof of a barn.
May 2023HailHarkeyville-no account filed
June 2009HailHarkeyville-no account filed
May 2008HailHarkeyville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Saba 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
China Creek3.3 miles14
San Saba3.7 miles16
Algerita3.8 miles13
Fairview5.2 miles14
Sloan7.4 miles13
Richland Springs9.4 miles14
Spring Creek10.0 miles14
McMillan10.3 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on HarkeyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116966218The 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 1379890. 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.