BlockNesbitt, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Calvert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76629. The Survey maps it on the Owensville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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 Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Owensville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Nesbitt between 2005 and 2019, burning about 267 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LITTLE MISSISSIPPI CEMETERY RD. |
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LITTLE MISSISSIPPI CEMETERY RD. |
| 26 September 2011 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROSE HILL RD @ MINE |
| 7 June 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4 MILE |
| 19 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM2293@LONE WOLF RD |
| 13 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COOKS RD FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nesbitt in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Nesbitt | $20,000 | EM reported water over road on N FM 46 near Liere Dairy and is washed out so impassable. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nesbitt | - | Law enforcement reported 8 trees down between Franklin and Bremond, TX, with some of them blocking roads. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Nesbitt | - | Half-dollar size hail fell along Farm-to-Market Road 46 about 5 miles southeast of Bremond. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tidwell Prairie | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Owensville | 4.5 miles | 7 | |
| Hogg | 5.7 miles | 7 | |
| Hammond | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Bremond | 6.3 miles | 7 | |
| Petteway | 6.7 miles | 7 | |
| Franklin | 7.7 miles | 10 | |
| White Rock | 8.7 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.
| Wikidata item Q49357529 | 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 1380242. 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.