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Muellersville, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Brenham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77833. It stands on Jackson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Welcome quadrangle.

Muellersville within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

71 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Muellersville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3671 FM 109
24 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSALEM RD
5 August 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceODONNELL FARM
3 August 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2000 OLD MILL CREEK ROAD
25 August 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTIGERPOINT ROAD
25 August 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOEKER 389

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Muellersville: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure. 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
Brenham Dome ProspectSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra PureOccurrenceHalite

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Muellersville in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
May 2010LightningMuellersville$8,000Lightning struck and set ablaze an oil tank.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMuellersville-Parts of a barn's metal roof were peeled back and three trees were toppled near the intersection of FM 332 and Woodlands Road.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindMuellersville-Thunderstorm winds downed trees along FM 332.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Phillipsburg3.1 miles10
Klump3.9 miles10
Wesley4.4 miles7
Brenham5.1 miles10
Berlin5.4 miles10
Mill Creek5.5 miles10
Greenvine7.2 miles7
Latium7.3 miles7

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 Q122559990The 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 1378715. 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.