Seward Junction, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Round Rock-Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78642. The Survey maps it on the Liberty Hill quadrangle.

Seward Junction within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 13 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.

1893 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Liberty Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

183 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Seward Junction between 2000 and 2020, burning about 929 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80
Debris and open burning	64
Power generation/transmission/distribution	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2

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
4 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	22300 RONALD W REAGAN BLVD
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4850 RR 1869
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH BRANCH - 50
16 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	9700 W SH 29
16 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	9750 W. SH 29
14 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 3405
13 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4250 N US 183

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Seward Junction: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Armadillo Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Jinks Branch	1.6 miles	13
Santa Rita Ranch	2.0 miles	15
Liberty Hill	2.6 miles	13
Hunt Crossing	4.2 miles	15
Leander	5.3 miles	17
Russell Crossing	6.7 miles	15
Walkerton	8.6 miles	17
Andice	8.9 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380519. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.