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Meyersville, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Westhoff-Arneckville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77974. It stands on Boggy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Meyersville quadrangle. It stands 230 feet above sea level.

Meyersville within DeWitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

42 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Meyersville between 2006 and 2018, burning about 646 acres in total. 1 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 burning23
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1

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 August 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHN BREWER
21 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLLOYD LANE
18 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 237 - B HAUN RD
12 August 2014Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSONNY POWELL
1 August 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUELLER-LANGE RD
28 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHN P. JANK
28 July 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOLL 7/28/14
27 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service07272011-GARY HALEPESKA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeWitt County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Meyersville: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
Goliad ProjectUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in DeWitt County

Storms near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meyersville in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 1994HailMeyersville$50,000The Sheriff's Department reported golf ball-sized hail at Meyersville.
April 1994HailMeyersville$50,000Golf ball-sized hail was reported at Meyersville by the Dewitt County Shieriff's Department.
November 2025HailMeyersville-A thunderstorm produced hail up to golf ball size in Meyersville. Most of the hail was less than quarter size.
May 2023Flash FloodUpper Meyersville-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. TXDoT reported low water crossings flooded on FM 237 between Yorktown and Hwy 183.
June 2015Flash FloodLower Meyersville-Heavy rain from Tropical storm Bill caused flash flooding. Several roads were closed in the county including FM418, Mission Valley-Myersville Rd, and Hwy87.
May 1993Tornado (F0)Meyersville-The County Sheriff's Office reported a tornado near United States Highway 183 and CR237. Several large limbs were blown down in the City of Cuero and a few trees were uprooted. The public reported a tornado near Meyersville.
October 1993HailMeyersville-Baseball-size hail was reported in Meyersville, the hail fell for a 30 minute period. Golf ball-size hail was reported six miles south of Cuero between Meyersville and Radcliff.
October 1993HailMeyersville-Baseball-size hail was reported in Meyersville, the hail fell for a 30 minute period. Golf ball-size hail was reported six miles south of Cuero between Meyersville and Radcliff.

Every storm recorded in DeWitt 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
Upper Meyersville1.9 miles7
Golly2.9 miles7
Arneckeville4.9 miles7
Thomaston9.6 miles7
Verhelle10.2 miles9
Yorktown10.7 miles8
Cuero11.5 miles10
Lindenau13.4 miles10

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 MeyersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3477739The 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 1377594. 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.