BlockLissie, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Bernard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77454. The Survey maps it on the Lissie quadrangle. It stands 153 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Wallis quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Lissie quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lissie in 2008, burning about 8 acres in total. None 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 | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 October 2008 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 October 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lissie in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Lissie | - | Sections of FM 1164 near Highway 90 were closed due to inundating flood waters.||There widespread catastrophic flooding from both the Colorado and San Bernard Rivers. Highway 59 was closed due to the flooding of the Colorado River between Hungerford and El Campo. Major flooding occurred along the Colorado River in the town of Wharton with homes, businesses and vehicles being inundated along the River Reach, Hobben Oaks, Bear Bottom, Elm Grove, River Valley and Pecan Valley subdivisions. County wide flooding of roads include, but are not limited to, Sunset Street, Elm Street, FM 102, North Alabama Road, US 59, CR 135, CR 150, CR 166, CR 133, CR 153, CR 102, CR 232, CR 244, CR 228, CR 137, FM 249 and FM 640. There was significant home flooding in the towns of Glenflora, Peach Acres and Orchard. The San Bernard River flooding caused sections of roads Highway 90A, FM 2919, FM 442, CR 151, CR 1096 and CR 1010 to go under water. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nottawa | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Bonus | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| East Bernard | 8.4 miles | 11 | |
| Elm Grove | 9.5 miles | 9 | |
| Sand Ridge | 9.6 miles | 9 | |
| Egypt | 10.4 miles | 8 | |
| Dorman | 12.0 miles | 8 | |
| Hungerford | 13.4 miles | 8 |
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 Lissie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6559166 | 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 1340001. 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.