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Ottine, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Harwood-Ottine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78629. It stands on Mule Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ottine quadrangle. It stands 338 feet above sea level.

Ottine within Gonzales County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Ottine between 1993 and 2020, burning about 746 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
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning10
Natural1
Fireworks1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
15 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH-10
4 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use125 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOTTINE
31 August 2014Natural8.4 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceINDEPENDENCE FIRE
12 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHN GANNON HAY BARN
11 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS183 S @ EAGLE DR.
8 July 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSANDY PINE
6 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOWELL
3 July 2020Debris and open burning14 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceINDEPENDENCE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gonzales County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ottine: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand

Every working recorded in Gonzales County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ottine in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2009: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008Thunderstorm WindOttine$5,000A six to seven foot long piece of sheet metal was torn from a business' car canopy.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindOttine$2,000Thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 50 knots, knocked down a tree across the road leading into the Palmetto State Park.
July 2008HailOttine-A manager of a travel stop along I-10 reported one inch hail.

Every storm recorded in Gonzales 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
Saint James2.4 miles14
Slayden3.1 miles14
Smithville5.3 miles14
Harwood6.3 miles16
Oak Forest6.8 miles11
Belmont7.4 miles16
Monthalia9.0 miles11
Gonzales9.6 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 OttineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7109478The 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 1343338. 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.