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Nameless, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Northwest Travis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78641. It lies in Nameless Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Nameless quadrangle.

Nameless within Travis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Nameless between 1992 and 2020, burning about 293 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1

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
5 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minor84 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOONGLOW FIRE
27 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2020002006
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugePOLE
13 September 2013Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLANSING CV
6 August 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRYSTAL COVE
29 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeBURNT TRUCK FIRE
29 August 1993Natural10 acresBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeVICTORIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Nameless: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Featherlite CorpStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Travis County

Storms near this place

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nameless in 9 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 7 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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
May 2025HailNameless-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail northwest of Leander.
July 2025Flash FloodNameless-Slow-moving thunderstorms produced torrential rainfall over northwestern Travis County between the late evening hours of July 4 and the early morning hours of July 5. An estimated 3 to 13 inches of rain fell within the Big Sandy Creek watershed, with the heaviest rainfall occurring in the creek headwaters near the Travis-Williamson county line. Lone Mountain Pass, north of Jonestown, was under water and impassable.
April 2024HailNameless-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail northwest of Cedar Park.
April 2024HailNameless-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail northwest of Cedar Park.
April 2023HailNameless-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Nameless southwest of Leander.
June 2023HailNameless-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail west of Leander.
June 2014Funnel CloudNameless-Several funnel clouds were observed from thunderstorms in Travis County.
April 2023HailNameless-no account filed
October 2009HailNameless-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Travis 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
Jonestown2.0 miles24
Round Mountain3.6 miles14
South Jonestown Hills3.8 miles24
Lago Vista5.5 miles24
Volente6.4 miles24
Hudson Bend7.4 miles24
North Shore Acres7.8 miles24
Four Points9.2 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034691. 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.