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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.

Personville within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

71 since 1996

Regional 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
8 September 2005Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFCR 751 @ FM 489
29 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1332
26 September 2014Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSW 4200 (SW 4180)
21 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSW CR 2090
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9103
10 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service25061 FM 744

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Teague PitKaolinPast Producer

Every working recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2002Tornado (F0)Personville$3,000A 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 2025Thunderstorm WindPersonville-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 2017Thunderstorm WindPersonville-Emergency Manager reported wind damage near Highway 164 and FM 39 in Groesbeck.
April 2015HailPersonville-Quarter sized hail was reported 9 miles SSW of Teague.

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Lost Prairie2.1 miles7
Fair Oaks2.4 miles7
LaSalle4.6 miles8
Center4.7 miles8
Farrar4.9 miles7
Fallon6.0 miles8
Prairie Grove6.1 miles8
New Hope7.6 miles7

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 Q122544082The 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.