Paige, Texas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bastrop census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78659. The Survey maps it on the Paige quadrangle. 278 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 571 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1885 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
- 1904 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Smithville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Smithville quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1982 USGS Paige quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
73 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Paige between 1994 and 2020, burning about 488 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 290 W. #1 |
| 7 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HOG TRAP |
| 5 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HILLS |
| 3 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 36 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 36 |
| 27 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 50 CENT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paige in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paige | $50,000 | Trees were blown down 3 miles west of the intersection of US290 and SH21 near Paige. |
| October 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paige | $20,000 | Winds from a severe thunderstorm blew down trees and caused damage to metal outbuildings. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paige | $20,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down power poles and blocked roads. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paige | $8,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 50 knots, knocked some large trees onto roads near Paige. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Paige | $5,000 | A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail that accumulated on the ground in Paige. A house was damaged by the wind driven hail. |
| March 1993 | Hail | Paige | $5,000 | Half-dollar-size hail was reported in Utley by a weather observer. As a second areas of thunderstorms moved into the county, quarter-size hail was reported between Elgin and Bastrop. Five minutes later the Elgin Police reported quarter-size hail just south of Elgin. Hail up to softball-size was reported in Paige. At least one car had its windshield knocked out. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Paige | - | A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail in Paige. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Paige | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Paige. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Paige | - | A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail at the Whataburger in Paige. |
| May 2020 | Tornado (EFU) | Paige | - | A storm chaser reported a brief tornado just west of FM 2104 south of Paige. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Paige | - | A thunderstorm produced hail slightly larger than quarters in Paige. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Paige | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 21 at the railroad tracks in Bastrop. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Paige | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing FM2239 in the 200 block and FM2104 near Grassyville Rd. in Paige. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Paige | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in a swift water rescue at Grssyville Rd. and FM2104. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paige | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew down trees at Hwy 21 and Cardinal Dr. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Paige | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing multiple low water crossings in the Paige area. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Paige | - | Thunderstorms produced general 2 to 3inch rainfall totals over the northern half of Bastrop County, with the highest amounts near 4 inches in the area around Paige. FM21074 and SH21 were closed through part of the afternoon due to flash flooding. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Paige | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grassyville | 5.3 miles | 16 | |
| Circle D Estates | 7.2 miles | 17 | |
| KC Estates | 7.9 miles | 17 | |
| McDade | 8.3 miles | 15 | |
| Pin Oak | 8.7 miles | 16 | |
| Pine Hills | 8.8 miles | 16 | |
| Camp Swift | 9.5 miles | 16 | |
| Swiftex | 10.5 miles | 16 |
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 Paige | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7124705 | 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 1343424. 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.







