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Old Davy, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Yorktown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78164. The Survey maps it on the Garfield quadrangle.

Old Davy within DeWitt 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.

Fires near this place

25 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Old Davy between 2006 and 2020, burning about 359 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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 2017Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKARNES COUNTY LINE
9 September 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRANDY HENRY
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKORTH RANCH
8 August 2018Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROBERT CULLPEPPER
31 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFRANK KOZIELSKI RD.
30 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARATHON OIL SITE WINGNUT LEO NELSON RD.
28 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTEXAS DEPT. OF TRANS.
15 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOVELL BLAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeWitt County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Old Davy: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
Conoco Conquista Friar-Knandel PitUraniumProducer
Finch-Hartman PitUraniumProducer
Griffin MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Korth-Hartman-Finch MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Steinman MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Thomas PitUraniumProducer
Thomas-Knandel-Dybowski MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound

Every working recorded in DeWitt County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Davy in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 flash 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
November 2009Flash FloodOld Davy-Heavy rain caused flooding which closed FM 108 due to high water across the road.

Every storm recorded in DeWitt 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
New Davy2.1 miles10
Garfield3.1 miles11
Gruenau3.3 miles10
Nopal4.2 miles11
Cotton Patch6.9 miles8
Kubala Store7.3 miles10
Yorktown9.7 miles8
Nordheim11.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122559195The 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 1380294. 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.