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Hostyn, Texas

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

Hostyn 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

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Hostyn between 1993 and 2020, burning about 291 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use6
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 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePINEY CREEK RD
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
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined24 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 24

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 Hostyn: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
La Grange PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lagrange PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hostyn in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2018: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
October 2018Flash FloodHostyn-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding sending water over the bridge on Creamer Creek Rd. southwest of LaGrange.
April 2017HailHostyn-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
O'Quinn3.3 miles10
Cozy Corner3.9 miles10
Wendt4.3 miles11
Swiss Alp4.4 miles10
La Grange4.7 miles11
Ammannsville5.1 miles10
Mullins Prairie5.8 miles10
Marly6.3 miles11

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 HostynAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12020385The 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 1338146. 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.