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Rexville, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sealy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77474. It stands on Crooked Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rexville quadrangle. It stands 164 feet above sea level.

Rexville within Austin 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.

Fires near this place

63 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Rexville between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,737 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
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
30 September 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 September 2011Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLUMBUS ROAD
3 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ SEALY
9 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH AND GRASS FIRE
7 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
17 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKULOW RD GRASS FIRE
4 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Austin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rexville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Chew MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Austin 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
Beard3.9 miles10
Sealy4.8 miles11
Frydek6.9 miles13
South Frydek7.2 miles11
San Felipe7.5 miles13
Macedonia8.7 miles11
Brazos Country8.8 miles13
Peters9.3 miles11

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 RexvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711278The 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 1378952. 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.