Nickel, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Gonzales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77984. The Survey maps it on the Moulton quadrangle.

Nickel 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 Moulton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Nickel between 2001 and 2020, burning about 414 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	7
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
12 August 2001	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH BRANCH - 5
1 February 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 November 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CUB
9 October 2005	Debris and open burning	283 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH TX - 3
3 January 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 January 2006	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 January 2006	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 January 2006	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gonzales County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nickel in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 hail. 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
May 2025	Hail	Nickel	-	A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail southwest of Flatonia.
July 2009	Hail	Nickel	-	An employee at Mouton Feed Company reported penny size hail northwest of Mouton.

Every storm 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
Comanche Crossing	3.0 miles	11
Hickston	4.4 miles	11
Little New York	4.7 miles	11
Dilworth	4.8 miles	11
Newtonville	6.8 miles	11
Saturn	7.1 miles	11
Kokernot	8.2 miles	9
Waelder	10.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378755. 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.