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Nursery, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Victoria census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77904. The Survey maps it on the Nursery quadrangle. It stands 131 feet above sea level.

Nursery within Victoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

148 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Nursery between 2006 and 2020, burning about 929 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 burning74
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use19
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePARSONS RD
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVILLAFRANCA RD
3 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLIVER
22 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCCORMICK DRIVE FIRE
21 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJUAN ANTONIO
18 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOWER MISSION VALLEY ROAD FIRE
18 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOVE ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Victoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Nursery: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Victoria County

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nursery in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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
September 2020Thunderstorm WindNursery$25,000Thunderstorm winds produced damage to some homes and outbuildings.
September 2014LightningNursery$10,000Lightning struck an oil storage tank near the community of Nursery. This caused a fire that burned the tank and the tank battery.
January 2011Thunderstorm WindNursery$10,000Power pole blown on a trailer home at the 13000 block of North Highway 87.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindNursery$5,000Large tree limbs were knocked down and several trees were uprooted in Nursery. At 0120 CST the public reported wind damage to brick wall in a mobile home park in Victoria and several more trees uprooted in the Woodway area.
June 2025Heavy RainNursery-Mesonet Site recorded 2.5 inch per hour rainfall rate.
February 2024FloodNursery-Heavy rain in combination of rising water levels upstream resulted in overflowing of Spring Creek covering roads and a low bridge near the corner of Raab Road and Nursery Drive. Roads appear impassable.
January 2011Thunderstorm WindNursery-Car was blown into the ditch on Highway 87, one mile north of FM 447.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNursery-Large tree limbs reported blown down.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindNursery-Large trees fell on several homes in Nursery.
May 2005HailNursery-no account filed
May 2005HailNursery-no account filed
October 2005HailNursery-no account filed
May 2004Funnel CloudNursery-no account filed
August 2004HailNursery-no account filed
March 2000HailNursery-no account filed
June 1998HailNursery-no account filed
June 1996HailNursery-no account filed
June 1996HailNursery-no account filed
June 1996HailNursery-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindNursery-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Victoria 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
Moursund3.4 miles8
Mission Valley5.3 miles7
Dupre7.2 miles9
Victoria9.6 miles9
Chipley10.0 miles9
Quail Creek10.2 miles9
Aloe10.9 miles9
Salem10.9 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.

Wikipedia article on NurseryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7070219The 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 1364246. 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.