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Reedville, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Martindale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78656. The Survey maps it on the Uhland quadrangle. It stands 561 feet above sea level.

Reedville within Caldwell 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.

Fires near this place

90 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Reedville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,732 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning49
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILLIAM PETUS/21
23 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service142
23 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHIRD ST
6 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
26 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2018Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOW TRAIL FIRE
15 August 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2008Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Reedville: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
AcmeSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
CummingsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Thompson Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

16 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reedville in 16 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindReedville$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 80 mph that broke power poles and knocked down power lines in Martindale.
October 2013LightningReedville$10,000A thunderstorm produced a lightning strike that caused a structural fire.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindReedville$2,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 65 mph that knocked down some six inch diameter tree limbs.
May 2025HailReedville-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Martindale. The hail dented some cars and shredded leaves.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindReedville-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 53 kts by the AWOS at San Marcos Regional Airport.
May 2025HailReedville-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail in Reedville.
May 2022HailReedville-A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail in Martindale.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindReedville-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 51 kts by the AWOS at San Marcos Regional Airport.
May 2021HailReedville-A thunderstorm produced 1.5 inch diameter hail near the San Marcos Regional Airport.
March 2021HailReedville-A thunderstorm produced nickel to ping pong ball size hail in Martindale. The report was from a former NWS employee.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindReedville-A thunderstorm produced a measured wind gust of 53 kts. at the San Marcos Municipal Airport.
April 2020HailReedville-A thunderstorm produced nickel to quarter size hail in Martindale.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindReedville-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 56 kts. by the AWOS at San Marcos Regional Airport.
May 2015Flash FloodReedville-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding requiring water rescues near the Gary Job Corps Center.
October 2013FloodReedville-After a night of heavy rain, runoff into the San Marcos River sent a flood wave downstream. Below San Marcos there was flooding at the Pecan Park Campground. Farther downstream the river sent water over FM1979 closing the road, and there was a swift water rescue at FM 1977 near Staples. There were 21 homes destroyed across Caldwell County, 20 of which were mobile homes. Most of the homes that were damaged and destroyed were uninsured.
December 2008HailReedville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
Martindale2.4 miles13
Maxwell2.8 miles13
Uhland6.3 miles13
Fentress9.3 miles13
Lockhart9.4 miles15
Niederwald10.9 miles18
Prairie Lea11.3 miles15
Mineral Springs (historical)11.4 miles15

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 ReedvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48851298The 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 1345006. 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.