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Seeligson, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Premont census division. The Survey maps it on the Ella quadrangle.

Seeligson within Jim Wells County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

21 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Seeligson between 2008 and 2011, burning about 964 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSEELINGSON RANCH
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 431 & CR 427
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN.HWY.281 & N.BUS. 281
15 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service6757 HWY.281 FIRE.
10 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1 MILE N ON HW 281
5 May 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR432 FIRE
5 May 2011Equipment and vehicle use300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMR OZUNA'S RANCH
12 May 2011Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRIAD ENERGY CO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jim Wells County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seeligson in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 hail. 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 2024HailSeeligson-Photos of hail up to golf ball size from Emergency manager.

Every storm recorded in Jim Wells 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
Premont3.4 miles8
Ella4.5 miles8
La Gloria8.9 miles7
Palito Blanco13.2 miles7
Ben Bolt16.5 miles7
English Acres Colonia20.8 miles7
Coyote Acres21.0 miles7
Torian21.2 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q122572212The 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 1380917. 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.