Rehburg, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Gay Hill-Independence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77835. It stands on Old Rocky Creek. The Survey maps it on the Somerville quadrangle.

Rehburg 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.

1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Somerville quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Somerville quadrangle1:24000
1971 USGS Somerville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

100 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Rehburg between 1999 and 2020, burning about 531 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Debris and open burning	31
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	2
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	9501 290 WEST
4 September 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	8500 290 WEST
4 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OVERLOOK PARK
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SHEPARD MOUNTAIN RANCH FIRE
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SHEPARD MOUTAIN
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LONGPOINT ROAD FIRE
26 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	IRON BRIDGE RD
16 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	76 BRIAR CREEK ROAD

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
Longpoint	2.2 miles	7
Gay Hill	3.8 miles	10
Union Hill	4.5 miles	7
Quarry	4.6 miles	10
Zionville	5.2 miles	10
Burton	5.3 miles	7
Mill Creek	7.8 miles	10
Berlin	8.4 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.

Wikidata item Q122598610

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 1378948. 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.