BlockJeddo, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Smithville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78953. The Survey maps it on the Jeddo quadrangle. It stands 463 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Flatonia quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Jeddo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
35 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Jeddo between 1993 and 2020, burning about 6,648 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,030 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DELHI FIRE |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4000 FIRE |
| 23 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 95 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONTROL BURN OUT OF CONTROL |
| 14 August 2014 | Natural | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOLF RUN FIRE |
| 29 July 1997 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 July 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | DOWN LINES |
| 24 July 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OUT OF CONTROL CONTROL BURN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jeddo in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Hail | Jeddo | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail between Rosanky and Jeddo. |
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.
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 Jeddo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6172709 | The 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 1378495. 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.