BlockOwensville, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Franklin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77856. The Survey maps it on the Owensville quadrangle. It stands 489 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Owensville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
59 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Owensville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 453 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 39 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MAIN ST |
| 8 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LITTLE MISSISSIPPI CEMETERY RD. |
| 8 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 17-107 |
| 7 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TFS 17-0000105 |
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LITTLE MISSISSIPPI CEMETERY RD. |
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LITTLE MISSISSIPPI CEMETERY RD. |
| 4 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TFS 17-0000104 |
| 13 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Owensville in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Hail | Owensville | $10,000 | A storm chaser reported 2 inch hail northwest of Franklin. |
| April 2009 | Flood | Owensville | $10,000 | Prolonged heavy rainfall during the day left numerous roads and bridges in the Franklin area closed. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Owensville | $1,000 | EM reported Little Mississippi Cemetery Rd impassable due to water about 1/2 mile past the dump. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Owensville | $1,000 | EM reported water over the roadway at 5500 S FM 46 west of Owensville. |
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 Owensville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7114769 | 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 1380317. 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.