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Phelan, 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 78602. It stands on Big Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Bastrop quadrangle.

Phelan 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

492 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 492 fires within 5 miles of Phelan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,802 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 22 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 burning307
Missing data/not specified/undetermined99
Equipment and vehicle use26
Arson/incendiarism22
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural8
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1513 FAYETTE ST
4 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use4.9 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTACO TRUCK
3 September 2002Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 37
3 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 23
20 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4C RANCH ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop County

Storms near this place

8 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phelan in 8 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2019Thunderstorm WindPhelan$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 65 mph that blew the roofs off mobile homes at the Riverchase Mobile Home Park in Camp Swift.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindPhelan-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 75 mph by the Camp Swift RAWS.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindPhelan-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew out windows of a few houses and knocked out power.
June 2010Flash FloodPhelan-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flooding and washed out the 400 block of Sayers Road.
January 2016HailPhelan-no account filed
March 2014HailPhelan-no account filed
March 2013HailPhelan-no account filed
May 2011HailPhelan-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
Camp Swift2.8 miles16
Swiftex3.3 miles16
Bastrop3.4 miles17
Pine Hills4.1 miles16
KC Estates4.5 miles17
Circle D Estates4.9 miles17
Sayersville5.0 miles16
Utley5.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378855. 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.