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Raisin, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Victoria West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77905. It stands on Boggy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Raisin quadrangle.

Raisin within Victoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

117 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Raisin between 2006 and 2020, burning about 745 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Debris and open burning49
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLETOVILLE RD #2
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 446 FIRE
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOODY
29 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDELORAS
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 446
2 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLETOVILLE
12 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 446
10 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHUBERT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Victoria County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raisin in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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
April 2019Thunderstorm WindRaisin$5,000Tree was blown down on Coletoville Road north of Coletoville.
June 2025Heavy RainRaisin-Total rainfall accumulation of 8.49 inches.
June 2025Heavy RainRaisin-Total rainfall accumulation of 9.92 inches.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRaisin-Public reported wind estimates up to 60 mph that resulted in small tree limbs down.
June 2009HailRaisin-Quarter size hail reported at Reeves Ranch Rd. and U.S. 59 South.
March 1993HailRaisin-Nickel-size hail was reported between Coleto Creek and the town of Raisin.

Every storm recorded in Victoria 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
Coletoville1.8 miles8
Oak Village2.3 miles7
Aloe2.9 miles9
Quail Creek3.1 miles9
Chipley5.4 miles9
Victoria7.5 miles9
Hughes7.9 miles8
Dupre9.1 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122547182The 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 1380411. 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.