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Osage, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Oglesby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76528. The Survey maps it on the Coryell quadrangle.

Osage within Coryell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

66 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Osage between 2006 and 2020, burning about 878 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAUFENBERG FARM
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7675 FM 929
5 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2018Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMATTLAGE, HICKS CAMPFIRE
31 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use26 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3535 CR 265
3 August 2006Smoking40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2015Natural350 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMORGAN ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osage in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindOsage$10,000Amateur radio reported downed trees and power poles between Osage and Oglesby. VFDs had to clear tree debris from roadways. Reports were also received of a damaged roof and carport in the Osage area.

Every storm recorded in Coryell 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
Coryell3.2 miles12
Oglesby7.9 miles16
South Mountain9.0 miles16
Pecan Grove (historical)9.1 miles16
Lime City9.2 miles16
Cavitt10.6 miles16
Turnersville11.2 miles12
Gatesville11.3 miles16

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 OsageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q120962082The 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 1380313. 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.