Nashville, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Gause-Milano census division. It stands on Taylor Branch. The Survey maps it on the Gause quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Nashville within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Gause quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

41 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Nashville (historical) between 2005 and 2020, burning about 173 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning	18
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUSEFUSE
28 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROADSIDE PARK 79
21 August 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
19 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	7.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BARRACUDA
5 July 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIEE
5 July 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
31 July 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
28 July 2006	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Gause	4.6 miles	7
Port Sullivan (historical)	4.8 miles	8
Branchville	7.1 miles	7
Hanover	9.1 miles	7
Liberty	11.1 miles	7
Maysfield	11.6 miles	7
Crossroads	12.1 miles	7
Jones Prairie	13.5 miles	7

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.

Wikipedia article on Nashville (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6966931	The 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 2033973. 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.