BlockOldenburg, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Round Top census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78940. The Survey maps it on the La Grange East quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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 Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS La Grange East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
19 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Oldenburg between 1998 and 2011, burning about 2,974 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 | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2,700 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LUTHER HILL FIRE |
| 23 June 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 June 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7747 FM 1291 S |
| 11 June 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 31 May 2003 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 16 |
| 30 May 1998 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 March 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 237 & FM 1291 |
| 24 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROZOV FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oldenburg in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2024 | Hail | Oldenburg | - | A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail southwest of Round Top. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Oldenburg | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing FM237 at Oldenburg near Clear Creek. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Oldenburg | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding leading to a high water rescue near the junction of FM237 and FM159 near Oldenburg near Clear Creek. |
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.
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 Oldenburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7085542 | 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 1364511. 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.