Plum, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the La Grange West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78945. The Survey maps it on the La Grange West quadrangle. 366 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 299 feet above sea level.

Plum within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS La Grange West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Plum between 1992 and 2018, burning about 584 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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	25
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 26
23 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	150 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 25
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 21
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 20
2 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WINCHESTER ASSIST SB
2 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SPRING BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Plum: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Lagrange Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
Swor Pit No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plum in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 2019	Tornado (EF2)	Plum	$4,000,000	The same storm that produced the Salem-Freyburg Rd. EF0 tornado continued to move north through central Fayette County. As it approached the west side of La Grange, it produced another tornado with visible tree damage just south of the La Grange airport near the intersection of Supak Ln. and Jackson Rd. Large oak trees were damaged and uprooted near this area and areas along Old Lockhart Rd. Damage in this area was estimated to be EF1. The tornado then approached Hwy 71 producing heavy damage to a business on the south side of the road. At this location a large metal building was destroyed while another was heavily damaged. Business and employee vehicles were overturned and a 90,000 lb. piece of machinery was shifted and overturned. Damage was estimated to be EF2 as it crossed this area. Employees successfully took shelter in the business office and no injuries were reported. The tornado continued to move north and crossed Hwy 71, destroying/collapsing a metal building across the street and\|doing considerable damage to very large oak trees. The path continued north to Egypt Rd. where a small church was heavily damaged and more tree damage was observed. The tornado finally dissipated north of this area near Egypt Rd. just south of the Colorado River.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Plum	-	Airport Road near Highway 71 was closed due to high water northwest of the city of La Grange.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Plum	-	The public reported trees down in Plum.

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Prairie Valley	1.8 miles	11
West Point	3.7 miles	12
Wendt	4.1 miles	11
Rabbs Prairie	4.5 miles	11
Lena	5.0 miles	12
La Grange	5.2 miles	11
Marly	5.6 miles	11
Winchester	5.7 miles	16

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 Plum	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7205296	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 1365467. 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.