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New Davy, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Yorktown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78164. The Survey maps it on the New Davy quadrangle.

New Davy within DeWitt County

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

22 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of New Davy between 2006 and 2020, burning about 154 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
9 September 2017Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKARNES COUNTY LINE
8 August 2018Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROBERT CULLPEPPER
31 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFRANK KOZIELSKI RD.
30 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARATHON OIL SITE WINGNUT LEO NELSON RD.
15 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOVELL BLAIN
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINKE RD. & FM 108
8 June 2008Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE MEISCHEN AND CHODRE RD. ON FM2656

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeWitt County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of New Davy: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
Conoco Conquista Friar-Knandel PitUraniumProducer
Finch-Hartman PitUraniumProducer
Korth-Hartman-Finch MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Thomas PitUraniumProducer
Thomas-Knandel-Dybowski MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound

Every working recorded in DeWitt County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Davy in 1 storm report in 2009: 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
April 2009Thunderstorm WindNew Davy$100,000A large radio tower approximately 300 ft tall came down in 60 mph winds.

Every storm recorded in DeWitt 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
Old Davy2.1 miles11
Garfield2.3 miles11
Gruenau2.6 miles10
Cotton Patch4.9 miles8
Nopal5.6 miles11
Kubala Store6.5 miles10
Yorktown7.8 miles8
Nordheim9.3 miles8

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 Q122569083The 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 1380247. 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.