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Leagueville, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Chandler-Brownsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75778. It stands on Murphy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Leagueville quadrangle. It stands 420 feet above sea level.

Leagueville within Henderson 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

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Leagueville between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,166 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2011Smoking18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 488
25 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.2 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJAMES RAY
24 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7130
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2000Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 541
18 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leagueville in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2007Thunderstorm WindLeagueville$5,000Several trees downed. Some power lines were pulled down.
March 2022HailLeagueville-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail about a mile east of Leagueville, TX.

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
New Hope3.4 miles13
New York4.4 miles15
Opelika4.7 miles13
Antioch4.8 miles15
Brownsboro5.4 miles13
Moore Station5.8 miles15
Murchison6.0 miles13
Union Hill6.4 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.

Wikipedia article on LeaguevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076520The 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 1378572. 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.