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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1911 USGS San Marcos quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1919 USGS San Marcos quadrangle1:125000
- 1930 USGS Lockhart quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Lockhart South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
134 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 54 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CATFISH LN |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BURDETT WELL |
| 30 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CELL TOWER FIRE |
| 3 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 100 |
| 3 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 101 |
| 28 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH LANE FIRE |
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 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Lightning | Joliet | $100,000 | Lightning started a fire at an oil tank battery on Bugtussle Ln. northwest of Luling. Six hundred fifty barrels of oil burned. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mineral Springs (historical) | 0.4 miles | 15 | |
| Brownsboro | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Stairtown | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Prairie Lea | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Fentress | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Seawillow | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Soda Springs | 5.5 miles | 16 | |
| Watts | 6.0 miles | 15 |
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 Joliet | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q48851204 | 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 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.






