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Le Verte, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Buna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77612. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Call Junction quadrangle.

Le Verte within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

191 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Le Verte between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,484 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 54 were 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 burning111
Arson/incendiarism54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 196
5 September 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceK115
4 September 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 184
4 September 1993Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIVINGSTON - 952
30 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service232 CR 639
3 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Le Verte in 6 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
April 2016Tornado (EF2)Le Verte3 hurt, $50,000A tornado developed approximately 10 miles southwest of call along county road 702 and moved northeast along county road 1004 snapping or uprooting numerous trees and power lines over a wide swath. The tornado destroyed a single wide trailer just west of us Highway 96. The trailer flipped over twice with three residents inside. One was person was transferred to the hospital to receive stitches. The other two victims sustained only minor injuries. An aluminum shed near the trailer was lifted and thrown approximately 200 yards. The tornado then crossed us Highway 96 where it continued to snap or uproot trees and power lines before dissipating approximately 1 mile south of call in Newton County.
July 2025LightningLe Verte$100,000A home was struck by lightning. The resulting fire consumed most of the structure.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindLe Verte$50,000Multiple trees were downed along FM 1004. A barn also partially lost its roof.
January 2024Flash FloodLe Verte-A stream gage on Long Branch measured water levels consistent with minor flooding.
January 2023Flash FloodLe Verte-Water rose above bank full on drainage ditches north of Buna flooding area roads.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindLe Verte-The Jasper County Police Department reported several trees down along County Roads 634 and 1004.

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Forbes1.4 miles9
Call Junction4.4 miles9
Bessmay4.8 miles9
Buna6.9 miles9
Bunker Hill9.2 miles9
Kirbyville9.2 miles9
J and E Junction9.8 miles9
Quinn11.6 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122589622The 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 1380068. 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.