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Saturn, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Gonzales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78959. The Survey maps it on the Dilworth quadrangle.

Saturn within Gonzales County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Saturn between 1999 and 2020, burning about 374 acres in total. None 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 burning10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
8 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use3.8 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMM648 WEST FIRE
29 August 2011Debris and open burning34 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFRONTAGE
27 August 2014Debris and open burning23 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGASKIN FIRE
23 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVAUGHAN FIRE
16 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use62 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAL-MAINE FIRE
12 August 2001Debris and open burning80 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 5
6 July 2013Recreation and ceremony10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHOUROT FIRE
29 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gonzales County

Storms near this place

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saturn in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 4 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2020Thunderstorm WindSaturn$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 80 mph that tore the roof off a horse barn near the intersection of Alt Hwy 90 and CR 345 east of Gonzales.
May 2023Flash FloodSaturn-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. TXDoT reported water over the road on FM 532 east of Gonzales.
October 2021Flash FloodSaturn-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. FM 532 was closed due to flooding east of Gonzales. Up to 9.90 inches of rain fell in Gonzales.
May 2019HailSaturn-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail east of Gonzales.
May 2019HailSaturn-A thunderstorm produced two inch hail east of Gonzales.
March 2012Flash FloodSaturn-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing FM532 and FM1680. Denton Creek was spilling out of its banks.
November 2009Flash FloodSaturn-Heavy rain caused flooding which closed several Farm to Market roads due to high water across the roadway.

Every storm recorded in Gonzales 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
Hickston3.4 miles11
Little New York3.9 miles11
Comanche Crossing4.1 miles11
Waelder6.6 miles11
Sandy Fork7.1 miles11
Dilworth7.1 miles11
Nickel7.1 miles11
Thompsonville7.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034851. 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.