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San Gabriel, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Davilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76577. It stands on Pecan Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Gabriel quadrangle.

San Gabriel within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of San Gabriel between 2006 and 2020, burning about 648 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
Equipment and vehicle use33
Debris and open burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
29 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE N FM 908
22 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
21 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOTTON BALE ON FIRE
14 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
13 September 2015Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 August 2009Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
31 August 2015Smoking10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID THRALL AND GRANGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Gabriel in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2019Tornado (EF0)San Gabriel$10,000Am EF-0 tornado occurred in the city of San Gabriel, TX, damaging a business, a church, and a few sheds. Several trees were also damaged in the area. The tornado was on the ground for approximately 0.31 of a mile with a maximum width of 150 yards.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSan Gabriel$2,000Emergency management reported damage to a shed and barns just south of the city of San Gabriel, TX.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSan Gabriel$1,000Milam County Sheriff's Office reported trees and power lines down in the city of San Gabriel, TX.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindSan Gabriel$1,000The roof of a mobile home was damaged by thunderstorm winds.
December 2002HailSan Gabriel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Milam 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
Liberty Hill3.1 miles14
Detmold3.2 miles14
Sharp4.5 miles17
The Crossroads5.0 miles14
Thorndale5.6 miles14
Tracy6.2 miles15
Handy6.9 miles15
Marjorie7.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1367498. 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.