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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
- 1904 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1982 USGS Lake Bastrop quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
265 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 190 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 47 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2009 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OCTOBERFEST TRAIL |
| 7 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OAK HILL CEMETERY RD |
| 4 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.9 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TACO TRUCK |
| 4 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 23 |
| 2 September 2019 | Natural | 91 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNIT 15 |
| 2 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4C RANCH ROAD FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Hail | Sayersville | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Camp Swift. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Sayersville | - | A thunderstorm produced one inch hail northwest of Camp Swift. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayersville | - | A thunderstorm produced a wind gust measured at 66 mph by the Bastrop RAWS near McDade (BTRT2). |
| March 2014 | Hail | Sayersville | - | no account filed |
| March 2014 | Hail | Sayersville | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Sayersville | - | no account filed |
| March 2013 | Hail | Sayersville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swiftex | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| Camp Swift | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Phelan | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| McDade | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Utley | 6.0 miles | 17 | |
| Butler | 6.3 miles | 17 | |
| Circle D Estates | 7.1 miles | 17 | |
| KC Estates | 7.3 miles | 17 |
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.







