Phelps, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the New Waverly census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77340. The Survey maps it on the Phelps quadrangle.

Phelps within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Phelps quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Phelps quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Phelps between 1992 and 2020, burning about 538 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 10 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	64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	FOUR NOTCH
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 95
29 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 September 2006	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 203
20 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 September 2004	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 28
4 August 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
31 August 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 307

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

15 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phelps in 15 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Phelps	$75,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees between Huntsville and New Waverly. Law enforcement reported that the most damage was observed in and around the Elkins Lake Subdivision south of Huntsville where numerous trees were downed. One tree fell and damaged the the roof of a church near Interstate 45 North near exit 113.
April 2020	Hail	Phelps	$40,000	Baseball to apple sized hail was reported.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Phelps	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees along Southwood Drive east and northeast of the Steely Lumber Company. There was also some resident roof and vehicle damage.
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Phelps	$21,000	There was some roof damage to a home on Dorrell Road.
April 2020	Hail	Phelps	$10,000	Softball sized hail was reported.
January 2016	Hail	Phelps	$10,000	Tennis ball sized hail occurred along FM 2296 between Huntsville and New Waverly.
January 2016	Hail	Phelps	$7,000	Golfball sized hail occurred in the Elkins Lake Subdivision south of the Huntsville area.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Phelps	$2,000	Strong winds knocked down powerlines and two trees on FM 2929 near Grant Cemetary Road.
May 2024	Flash Flood	Phelps	-	FM 2929 was impassable just south of US-190 due to flash flooding.
April 2021	Flash Flood	Phelps	-	Floodwaters covered roadways around the FM 2929/FM 2296 intersection.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Phelps	-	A brief downburst wind captured on video resulted in several large tree limbs being downed.
April 2020	Hail	Phelps	-	Golf ball sized hail was reported for over a minute near the intersection of FM 2929 and US 190.
April 2020	Hail	Phelps	-	Golf ball sized hail was reported around Elkins Lake.
February 2009	Hail	Phelps	-	A severe thunderstorm produced penny size hail.
March 2009	Funnel Cloud	Phelps	-	A funnel cloud was sighted near Huntsville State Park.

Every storm recorded in Walker 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pine Valley	2.5 miles	13
Harmony	3.1 miles	13
Mount Morian	3.2 miles	13
Dodge	4.2 miles	13
Barado	5.3 miles	13
Huntsville	5.9 miles	14
Pine Hill	6.4 miles	14
Arizona	6.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382490. 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.