Shelby, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Industry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78940. The Survey maps it on the Greenvine quadrangle.
On record in Shelby
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Witte-Schmid Houselisted 1997
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Ehrigson Cotton Gin, Shelbyfederal building survey, 6 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Greenvine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
4 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Shelby between 2000 and 2011, burning about 13 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 81 |
| 20 February 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 954 FIRE |
| 2 December 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTUAL AID |
| 1 January 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 10005 ECKERMANN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shelby in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2009: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelby | $15,000 | Trees down. |
| April 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Shelby | - | A brief funnel cloud was sighted near Shelby. |
| March 1995 | Hail | Shelby | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Krebsville | 2.3 miles | 9 | |
| Rockhouse | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Rock House | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Welcome | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Industry | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Post Oak Point | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Bleiblerville | 8.0 miles | 10 | |
| New Ulm | 10.6 miles | 10 |
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 Shelby | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7493342 | The 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 1347010. 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.


