Newtonville, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Waelder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78941. It stands on Big Fivemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Flatonia NW quadrangle.

Newtonville within Gonzales County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1901 USGS Flatonia quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Flatonia NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Newtonville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. None 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
2 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	U-HAUL
15 August 2020	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRAILER TIRE
13 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENKE
7 February 2006	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 January 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 January 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WEST ZONE SOUTH - 36
18 January 2006	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 January 2006	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gonzales County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Newtonville: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Bentonite, Fullers Earth. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Moesker Pit	Bentonite, Clay	Producer	Sedimentary
Unnamed Pit	Fullers Earth	Producer	Sedimentary
Balcones Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Gonzales 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hickston	5.4 miles	11
Waelder	6.2 miles	11
Comanche Crossing	6.8 miles	11
Nickel	6.8 miles	11
Saturn	8.3 miles	11
Little New York	9.1 miles	11
Brown Hill	10.3 miles	12
Thompsonville	10.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378754. 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.