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Schwertner, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Granger census division. It stands on North Fork Donahoe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jarrell quadrangle. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Schwertner within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 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

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Schwertner between 2006 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
9 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGOOSENECK RD
6 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 324
24 August 2011Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1103 & CR 305
19 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2013Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDERMAN RD.
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 30
5 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 343
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 382

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schwertner in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2009: 1 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
October 2009Thunderstorm WindSchwertner-There were large tree limbs blown down near Schwertner.
April 2008HailSchwertner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Sonterra4.6 miles12
Jarrell4.8 miles12
Bartlett4.9 miles14
New Corn Hill5.0 miles12
Corn Hill5.4 miles12
Keelersville5.5 miles17
Theon5.7 miles12
Walburg6.5 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on SchwertnerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7433282The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1367864. 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.