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Montell, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Uvalde census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78801. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Montell quadrangle. It stands 1,283 feet above sea level.

Montell within Uvalde County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Montell between 2006 and 2011, burning about 2,659 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 burning7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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 August 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 May 2011Equipment and vehicle use12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND-CR 410 & TX HWY. 55
18 May 2006Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 April 2006Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMONTELL 2
7 April 2006Debris and open burning2,500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMONTELL
17 March 2009Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND-TX55 & CR 416
17 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDURNELLS HW 55
25 February 2008Debris and open burning11 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Uvalde County

Storms near this place

22 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montell in 22 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 11 hail, 9 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 1999HailMontell$60,000no account filed
March 2026Thunderstorm WindMontell-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 57 kts by mesonet station EA002 near Montell.
April 2026HailMontell-A thunderstorm produced baseball size hail south of Camp Wood.
April 2026HailMontell-A thunderstorm produced 3.5 diameter hail south of Camp Wood.
April 2026HailMontell-A thunderstorm produced tea cup size hail south of Camp Wood.
July 2025Flash FloodMontell-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Montell Creek overflowed sending four feet of water over Hwy 55 south of Montell.
July 2025Flash FloodMontell-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. A driver was rescued from rising floodwater at CR 416 and the Nueces River northeast of Montell.
September 2025FloodMontell-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. One and a half to two inches of rain sent Montell Creek over Hwy 55 near Montell.
August 2022Flash FloodMontell-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding that closed US 55 near Montell along the Nueces River. There were pictures of water over the road on social media.
September 2018Flash FloodMontell-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding of the Nueces River. The river flooded Hwy 55 near Montell.
October 2018HailMontell-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail near Montell.
April 2016HailMontell-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail at Cooksey Park.
August 2016Flash FloodMontell-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 55 from Montell to the Real County line along the Nueces River.
May 2015Flash FloodMontell-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Maverick Crossing south of Camp Wood.
September 2014Flash FloodMontell-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding sending one foot of water over Highway 55 at Maverick Crossing.
July 2012Flash FloodMontell-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding covering Hwy. 55 with 18 inches of water.
May 2009HailMontell-The public reported quarter size hail along highway 55 south of Camp Wood.
September 2009Flash FloodMontell-Heavy rain caused water to cover a portion of Highway 55 south of Camp Wood.
April 2008HailMontell-There was hail covering the ground at a residence off of County Road 415.
March 2007HailMontell-Hail up to 3 inches in diameter broke the windshield of the Skywarn spotter who observed it.
April 2017HailMontell-no account filed
April 2010HailMontell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Uvalde 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
Laguna8.2 miles16
Reagan Wells9.2 miles8
Nineteen Mile Crossing9.7 miles16
Happy Hollow14.8 miles8
Haby Crossing14.8 miles12
Magers Crossing15.4 miles8
Third Crossing15.8 miles8
Concan16.1 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122556295The 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 1374985. 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.