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Littig, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Austin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78653. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elgin West quadrangle.

Littig within Travis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Littig between 1992 and 2016, burning about 732 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
20 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 28
1 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 July 1998Recreation and ceremony25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 July 1998Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 July 1992Smoking200 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceYOUNG PRAIRIE
12 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service16064154

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Littig: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Standard Pit & PlantClayPast Producer
Weaver PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Travis County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Littig in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 3 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 2024HailLittig-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail northeast of Littig.
April 2024HailLittig-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail in Littig.
March 2013HailLittig-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Travis 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 Katy4.4 miles17
Manda5.8 miles17
Manor5.9 miles17
Lund6.6 miles17
New Sweden7.0 miles17
Webberville7.1 miles18
Carlson7.5 miles17
Dunlap7.6 miles18

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 LittigAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6648798The 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 1340003. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.