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Oakville, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Three Rivers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78071. It lies near Friday Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Oakville quadrangle. It stands 171 feet above sea level.

Oakville within Live Oak County

On record in Oakville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

117 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Oakville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 682 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined58
Equipment and vehicle use30
Debris and open burning15
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Natural2
Smoking2

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
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019143
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019141
23 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 72 GRASS FIRE
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019140
18 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2009-110
17 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2011-127
16 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2011-124

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Live Oak County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Oakville: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Molybdenum, Selenium, Rhenium, Selenium, Molybdenum. 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
Sulfur Creek MineUranium, Molybdenum, Selenium, RheniumPast ProducerStratabound
Zamzow Mine (IEC)Uranium, Selenium, MolybdenumPast ProducerStratabound
Felder Uranium OperationUraniumProducer
Lamprecht MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Marrs-Mclean Pit No 1UraniumPast Producer
Marrs-Mclean Pit No 2UraniumPast Producer
Sulfer Creek OperationUraniumProducer
Zamzow Leaching Plant (Facility)UraniumProducer

Every working recorded in Live Oak County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakville in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 3 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
February 2016Thunderstorm WindOakville$200,000Around a dozen power poles and several highway signs were blown down along Interstate 37 near Oakville. A few roofs were peeled back on buildings in Oakville. Several trees and sheds were blown down also.
August 2022FloodOakville-Major flooding occurred in central Live Oak County as a flood wave continued to move down the Nueces River. Significant low land flooding occurred. Several homes were flooded in the River Creek Acres subdivision, southeast of George West. Roads and bridges near the river were flooded.
May 2013Flash FloodOakville-Interstate 37 was closed due to high water near the community of Oakville.
June 2007Flash FloodOakville-The heavy rain caused a creek to flood county roads with fast moving waters, between F.M. 1203 and FM 1358.|
September 2003Flash FloodOakville-A nearly stationary thunderstorm produced localized 6 to 8 inches of rain in 3 hours near Oakville along Interstate 37. The frontage road of I-37 around Sulphur Creek. had water over the road.
January 1999HailOakville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Live Oak 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
Three Rivers4.3 miles11
Ray Point4.5 miles9
Ike4.9 miles11
Karon5.7 miles11
George West8.1 miles12
La Para9.7 miles9
Simmons9.9 miles12
River Creek Acres10.8 miles12

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 OakvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7074240The 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 1343034. 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.