Personville, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Personville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76642. It stands on Gibson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Teague South quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1920 USGS Mexia quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Teague South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mexia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
71 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Personville between 1996 and 2020, burning about 785 acres in total. None 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 burning | 38 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 2005 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FCR 751 @ FM 489 |
| 29 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1332 |
| 26 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SW 4200 (SW 4180) |
| 21 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SW CR 2090 |
| 10 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9103 |
| 10 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 25061 FM 744 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Personville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teague Pit | Kaolin | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Personville in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Personville | $3,000 | A shed roof was blown off, the antenna was blown off a house, and numerous trees were blown down. The tornado moved northeast into rural Freestone County 1.5 miles north of Personville. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Personville | - | The Limestone County Emergency Manager relayed a report from dispatch that a large oak tree was blocking the road on LCR 800 near Personville. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Personville | - | Emergency Manager reported wind damage near Highway 164 and FM 39 in Groesbeck. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Personville | - | Quarter sized hail was reported 9 miles SSW of Teague. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lost Prairie | 2.1 miles | 7 | |
| Fair Oaks | 2.4 miles | 7 | |
| LaSalle | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Center | 4.7 miles | 8 | |
| Farrar | 4.9 miles | 7 | |
| Fallon | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Prairie Grove | 6.1 miles | 8 | |
| New Hope | 7.6 miles | 7 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122544082 | 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 1380900. 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.




