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New Wehdem, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Bellville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77426. The Survey maps it on the Kenney quadrangle.

New Wehdem within Austin 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

61 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of New Wehdem between 2006 and 2020, burning about 281 acres in total. 2 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3671 FM 109
23 September 2014Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6500 HWY 290 GRASS FIRE
8 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceILLEGAL BURN
7 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
28 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ NEUMANN
27 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Kenney2.0 miles10
Wehdem2.2 miles10
Sempronius (historical)3.5 miles10
Bleiblerville7.0 miles10
Nelsonville7.3 miles10
Buckhorn8.1 miles8
Welcome8.2 miles10
Bellville9.7 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 New WehdemAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110664451The 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 2034862. 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.