Holman, 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 78945. The Survey maps it on the Ammannsville quadrangle.

Holman 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 Ammannsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Holman between 1998 and 2017, burning about 230 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	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
7 August 1999	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOLMAN COMPLEX
18 August 1998	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 June 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 February 2006	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 December 2007	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 December 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 December 2012	Power generation/transmission/distribution	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MAZOCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Holman: 2 producers. All of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Ellinger Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
	Holman Valley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holman in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 funnel cloud. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 1998	Funnel Cloud	Holman	-	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ammannsville	3.3 miles	10
Mullins Prairie	3.8 miles	10
Dubina	5.0 miles	10
Cozy Corner	5.1 miles	10
Ellinger	5.7 miles	10
Swiss Alp	6.1 miles	10
Joiner	6.4 miles	10
Gay Hill	6.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378467. 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.

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.