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Monaville, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hempstead census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77445. The Survey maps it on the Sunny Side quadrangle.

Monaville within Waller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Monaville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 90 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE - GRASS
30 September 1992Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1992Debris and open burning17 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE-GRASS
26 August 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE - GRASS
23 August 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE-GRASS
16 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE-GRASS
26 July 2013Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE - GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waller County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monaville in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2006: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2005HailMonaville$30,000Baseball size hail.
November 2004Thunderstorm WindMonaville$20,000Power poles snapped at intersection of FM 362 and FM 529.
October 2005HailMonaville$10,000no account filed
April 2000HailMonaville$10,000no account filed
February 2003HailMonaville$5,000Nickel sized hail.
October 2006Flash FloodMonaville-High water on portions of Bell Road.

Every storm recorded in Waller 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
Sunny Side4.6 miles11
Pine Island7.4 miles10
Clemons7.5 miles13
Pattison9.0 miles9
Lewisville9.1 miles10
Waller9.4 miles15
Prairie View10.2 miles15
Hempstead10.3 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1363046. 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.