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Muehlsville, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Southwest Guadalupe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78155. The Survey maps it on the McQueeney quadrangle.

Muehlsville within Guadalupe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

112 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Muehlsville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,326 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Debris and open burning26
Equipment and vehicle use22
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
4 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALAMO CONCRETE FIRE
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSKATE PARK FIRE
26 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHWAB ROAD
16 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service6000 FM78
10 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 10 WEST FIRE
3 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSUNFIRE
27 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3803

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Muehlsville: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Balcones PitClayProducerSedimentary
FraserClayUnknown
Mcqueeney PitClayProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Guadalupe 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
Morrison Falls1.6 miles14
Zipp1.6 miles14
Nolte1.8 miles14
McQueeney3.0 miles14
Hilda Siding3.0 miles14
Seguin4.4 miles16
Santa Clara4.9 miles14
Marion5.3 miles14

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 Q122557464The 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 1378714. 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.