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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.

Paige within Bastrop County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

73 since 1994

Regional 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 burning34
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 290 W. #1
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOG TRAP
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHILLS
3 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use36 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 36
27 September 2008Debris and open burning150 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service50 CENT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop County

Storms near this place

18 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2002Thunderstorm WindPaige$50,000Trees were blown down 3 miles west of the intersection of US290 and SH21 near Paige.
October 2000Thunderstorm WindPaige$20,000Winds from a severe thunderstorm blew down trees and caused damage to metal outbuildings.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindPaige$20,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew down power poles and blocked roads.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPaige$8,000Thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 50 knots, knocked some large trees onto roads near Paige.
May 2017HailPaige$5,000A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail that accumulated on the ground in Paige. A house was damaged by the wind driven hail.
March 1993HailPaige$5,000Half-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 2025HailPaige-A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail in Paige.
May 2025HailPaige-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Paige.
May 2025HailPaige-A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail at the Whataburger in Paige.
May 2020Tornado (EFU)Paige-A storm chaser reported a brief tornado just west of FM 2104 south of Paige.
May 2017HailPaige-A thunderstorm produced hail slightly larger than quarters in Paige.
April 2016Flash FloodPaige-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 21 at the railroad tracks in Bastrop.
May 2016Flash FloodPaige-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing FM2239 in the 200 block and FM2104 near Grassyville Rd. in Paige.
May 2016Flash FloodPaige-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in a swift water rescue at Grssyville Rd. and FM2104.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindPaige-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew down trees at Hwy 21 and Cardinal Dr.
May 2015Flash FloodPaige-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing multiple low water crossings in the Paige area.
August 2007Flash FloodPaige-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 2011HailPaige-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bastrop 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
Grassyville5.3 miles16
Circle D Estates7.2 miles17
KC Estates7.9 miles17
McDade8.3 miles15
Pin Oak8.7 miles16
Pine Hills8.8 miles16
Camp Swift9.5 miles16
Swiftex10.5 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 PaigeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7124705The 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.