Saint Paul, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Hempstead census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77445. The Survey maps it on the Buckhorn quadrangle.

Saint Paul within Waller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1962 USGS Buckhorn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Saint Paul between 1996 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. 2 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 burning	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRAZOS RIVER LANE
30 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
27 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
22 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
15 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	TREE
30 July 2020	Debris and open burning	5.6 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
27 July 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRAZOS RIVER LANE
24 July 2013	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ILLEGAL BURN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waller 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
Second Corinth	2.5 miles	8
Hempstead	2.8 miles	10
Lewisville	2.9 miles	10
Rock Island	4.4 miles	8
Howth	5.3 miles	8
Pine Island	6.0 miles	10
Cedar Creek	6.9 miles	8
Rolling Hills	7.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379006. 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.