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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Nursery quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Goliad quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
148 since 2006Regional 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 burning | 74 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 43 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | PARSONS RD |
| 6 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VILLAFRANCA RD |
| 3 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OLIVER |
| 22 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCCORMICK DRIVE FIRE |
| 21 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JUAN ANTONIO |
| 18 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LOWER MISSION VALLEY ROAD FIRE |
| 18 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | LOVE ROAD FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
20 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nursery | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds produced damage to some homes and outbuildings. |
| September 2014 | Lightning | Nursery | $10,000 | Lightning struck an oil storage tank near the community of Nursery. This caused a fire that burned the tank and the tank battery. |
| January 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nursery | $10,000 | Power pole blown on a trailer home at the 13000 block of North Highway 87. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nursery | $5,000 | Large 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 2025 | Heavy Rain | Nursery | - | Mesonet Site recorded 2.5 inch per hour rainfall rate. |
| February 2024 | Flood | Nursery | - | 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nursery | - | Car was blown into the ditch on Highway 87, one mile north of FM 447. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nursery | - | Large tree limbs reported blown down. |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nursery | - | Large trees fell on several homes in Nursery. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Nursery | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Nursery | - | no account filed |
| October 2005 | Hail | Nursery | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Nursery | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Nursery | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Nursery | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Nursery | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Nursery | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Nursery | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Nursery | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nursery | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moursund | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Mission Valley | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Dupre | 7.2 miles | 9 | |
| Victoria | 9.6 miles | 9 | |
| Chipley | 10.0 miles | 9 | |
| Quail Creek | 10.2 miles | 9 | |
| Aloe | 10.9 miles | 9 | |
| Salem | 10.9 miles | 8 |
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 Nursery | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7070219 | The 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.




