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Nechanitz, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Round Top census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78946. It stands on Speckels Branch. The Survey maps it on the Nechanitz quadrangle.

Nechanitz within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Nechanitz between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,314 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2,700 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLUTHER HILL FIRE
26 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2004Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 12
25 September 2015Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRACE TRACK ROAD
2 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 221
18 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 130
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAYS CRANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nechanitz in 1 storm report in 2017: 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
August 2017Flash FloodNechanitz-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Harvey produced flash flooding closing numerous roads around the county.

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Waldeck2.2 miles8
Walhalla3.9 miles8
Warda4.7 miles8
Warrenton5.4 miles7
Oldenburg5.8 miles10
Rabbs Prairie6.6 miles11
Rutersville6.9 miles10
Round Top7.1 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378731. 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.