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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.

Shelby within Austin County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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.

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.

Ehrigson Cotton Gin, Shelby, Austin County, TX
Ehrigson Cotton Gin, Shelby, Austin County, TX
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

4 since 2000

Regional 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 use2
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
28 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 81
20 February 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 954 FIRE
2 December 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID
1 January 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10005 ECKERMANN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Austin County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2000Thunderstorm WindShelby$15,000Trees down.
April 2009Funnel CloudShelby-A brief funnel cloud was sighted near Shelby.
March 1995HailShelby-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Austin 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
Krebsville2.3 miles9
Rockhouse5.0 miles9
Rock House5.0 miles9
Welcome5.8 miles10
Industry6.1 miles9
Post Oak Point7.5 miles9
Bleiblerville8.0 miles10
New Ulm10.6 miles10

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 ShelbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7493342The 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.