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Nelsonville, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Industry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77418. The Survey maps it on the New Ulm quadrangle. It stands 302 feet above sea level.

Nelsonville within Austin County

On record in Nelsonville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

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

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Nelsonville between 2006 and 2014, burning about 66 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
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID GIVEN
14 August 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ GLAZEAR
14 June 2009Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ BRAVENEC
19 March 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
6 February 2006Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEST ZONE SOUTH - 58
13 February 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ ARNING
5 November 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE (INDUSTRY VFD)
1 November 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePLUM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Austin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nelsonville in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2021Flash FloodNelsonville-FM 2754 near Bleiberville was closed due to flooodwaters making the roadway impassable.
May 2021Flash FloodNelsonville-FM 2754 near East Mill Creek was impassable due to floodwaters covering the roadway, resulting in the closure of the road.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindNelsonville-Large trees were knocked down and tree limbs were snapped near Shupak Road.

Every storm recorded in Austin 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
Bleiblerville3.2 miles10
New Bremen3.6 miles10
Industry5.2 miles9
Welcome5.8 miles10
Kenney6.4 miles10
Wehdem6.6 miles10
New Wehdem7.3 miles10
Post Oak Point7.3 miles9

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 NelsonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711127The 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 1363667. 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.