Phillipsburg, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Brenham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77833. The Survey maps it on the Kenney quadrangle. It stands 397 feet above sea level.

Phillipsburg within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1930 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:62500
1963 USGS Kenney quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

81 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Phillipsburg between 2006 and 2020, burning about 260 acres in total. 1 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	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	3671 FM 109
24 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	SALEM RD
23 September 2014	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6500 HWY 290 GRASS FIRE
8 August 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ILLEGAL BURN
7 August 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
5 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
3 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
27 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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
Muellersville	3.1 miles	10
Brenham	5.2 miles	10
Chappell Hill	6.7 miles	9
Berlin	6.7 miles	10
Klump	6.8 miles	10
Wesley	7.4 miles	7
Sauney Stand	7.6 miles	8
Mill Creek	7.9 miles	10

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 Phillipsburg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711242	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 1343953. 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.