BlockPost Oak, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Grapeland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75844. It stands on Story Branch. The Survey maps it on the Augusta quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Slocum quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
78 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Post Oak between 1992 and 2020, burning about 690 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 5 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 | 44 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BEAVER |
| 4 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WELCH |
| 2 September 2012 | Natural | 21 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | LABOR DAY |
| 1 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 371 |
| 9 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | G W MARSHAL |
| 5 August 1998 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Post Oak in 1 storm report in 2019: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Tornado (EF2) | Post Oak | $250,000 | The EF-2 tornado produced intermittent damage along its track including taking a metal roof off of a home. The most severe damage occurred on the northeast end of the track where trees were stripped of limbs, vehicles were tossed and stacked upon one another and a double wide trailer home was destroyed. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Augusta | 0.7 miles | 10 | |
| Glover (historical) | 2.0 miles | 10 | |
| Waneta | 3.1 miles | 10 | |
| Liberty Hill | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Bobbittville (historical) | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Percilla | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Refuge | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| San Pedro | 3.8 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1383337. 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.