Noack, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Taylor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76574. It stands on Mustang Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thrall quadrangle.

Noack within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1885 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
1887 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1964 USGS Thrall quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

23 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Noack between 2006 and 2020, burning about 283 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	13
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTUAL AID THRALL ON GRASS FIRE
18 August 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	SMALL GRASS FIRE IN WILLIAMSON CO.
17 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	17-8170017
10 July 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTUAL AID THRALL GRASS FIRE
14 June 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 May 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Noack in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 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 1995	Hail	Noack	$20,000	Western Williamson County escaped the very large hail, reporting only small hail and moderate wind gusts. Hail grew to baseball-size in the eastern part of the county where high winds also knocked over trees near Thrall. Widespread crop damage was also reported with the storms.

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Thrall	2.3 miles	14
Beyersville	3.6 miles	14
Wuthrich Hill	5.6 miles	14
Taylor	5.6 miles	15
Sandoval	5.7 miles	14
Structure	6.1 miles	16
Shiloh	7.0 miles	15
Hoxie	7.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380255. 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.