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Joliet, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Luling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78648. It stands on Pin Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lockhart South quadrangle. It stands 417 feet above sea level.

Joliet within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Joliet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,497 acres in total. 2 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 burning54
Equipment and vehicle use34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Natural2
Smoking2

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
6 September 2008Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCATFISH LN
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURDETT WELL
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCELL TOWER FIRE
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 100
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 101
28 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH LANE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Joliet in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 lightning. 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
June 2023LightningJoliet$100,000Lightning started a fire at an oil tank battery on Bugtussle Ln. northwest of Luling. Six hundred fifty barrels of oil burned.

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
Mineral Springs (historical)0.4 miles15
Brownsboro3.8 miles15
Stairtown4.4 miles15
Prairie Lea4.7 miles15
Fentress5.2 miles13
Seawillow5.4 miles15
Soda Springs5.5 miles16
Watts6.0 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 JolietAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48851204The 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 1360363. 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.