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Sayersville, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bastrop census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78602. It stands on Little Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Bastrop quadrangle.

Sayersville within Bastrop County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

265 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 265 fires within 5 miles of Sayersville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,779 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 were 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 burning190
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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 September 2009Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOCTOBERFEST TRAIL
7 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOAK HILL CEMETERY RD
4 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use4.9 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTACO TRUCK
4 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 23
2 September 2019Natural91 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNIT 15
2 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4C RANCH ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop County

Storms near this place

7 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sayersville in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 6 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 2020HailSayersville-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Camp Swift.
April 2019HailSayersville-A thunderstorm produced one inch hail northwest of Camp Swift.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindSayersville-A thunderstorm produced a wind gust measured at 66 mph by the Bastrop RAWS near McDade (BTRT2).
March 2014HailSayersville-no account filed
March 2014HailSayersville-no account filed
April 2014HailSayersville-no account filed
March 2013HailSayersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bastrop 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
Swiftex1.9 miles16
Camp Swift3.4 miles16
Phelan5.0 miles16
McDade5.9 miles15
Utley6.0 miles17
Butler6.3 miles17
Circle D Estates7.1 miles17
KC Estates7.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1346746. 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.