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Little Cypress, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Orange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77632. The Survey maps it on the Mauriceville quadrangle.

Little Cypress within Orange County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Little Cypress between 1995 and 2016, burning about 602 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 2013Fireworks97 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9171
22 September 2005Debris and open burning85 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 254
22 September 2005Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 255
22 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
22 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
19 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 55
19 August 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 543
21 June 1998Arson/incendiarism30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Little Cypress: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
G.T.M. Sand PitSilicaProducer
Orange PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Teal PitSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducerSand
Alpha Portland Clay PitClayProducer
Orange PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Cypress in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
October 2021Tornado (EF2)Little Cypress1 hurt, $3,000,000A large tornado began near Hwy 1130, flipping a double wide mobile home that was tied down. A woman inside was critically injured. Other homes along Hwy 1130 had trees fall on them, roofs ripped off, and wind blown debris damage. The tornado continued north on South Teal Road, blowing down trees. Along Hudnall Road, several homes and garages lost their roofs. The tornado turned a little to the northeast, and hit the Woodland Ridge Acres subdivision off of Hwy 87, blowing down more trees. Max estimated wind speed was 130 MPH. The tornado continued into Newton County.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindLittle Cypress$25,000A barn was damaged, and minor roof damage was reported on one home north of Orange.
December 1997Thunderstorm WindLittle Cypress$25,000no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindLittle Cypress$5,000no account filed
February 2026Thunderstorm WindLittle Cypress$1,000An outdoor play area was destroyed.
October 2025Thunderstorm WindLittle Cypress$1,000A tree fell onto a power line causing a transformer fire.
April 2024Flash FloodLittle Cypress-Streets and yards were flooded along FM 1130 and 1078.

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Ridgecrest0.4 miles18
Echo1.5 miles18
Kinard Estates1.9 miles13
Reese2.5 miles13
West Bluff2.7 miles18
Morgan Bluff3.6 miles18
Brownwood3.6 miles19
Pine Grove3.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1340072. 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.