Shiloh, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Personville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76667. The Survey maps it on the Fallon quadrangle.

Shiloh within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1920 USGS Mexia quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Fallon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Mexia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

192 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Shiloh between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,718 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning	101
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	62
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
5 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 1365 & LCR 490
5 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LCR 492
30 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE 451 FM 1365
27 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
24 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
21 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

15 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shiloh in 15 storm reports between 2009 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
April 2023	Hail	Shiloh	$100,000	Emergency management reported golf ball sized hail 7 miles south of Mexia, TX.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Shiloh	$100,000	Large tree blown over onto home at FM 39 and LCR 458, causing significant damage.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Shiloh	$10,000	EM relayed a report from a trained spotter that water was over the road on LCR 456 just west of the railroad and was potentially washed out.
March 2016	Flash Flood	Shiloh	$10,000	Limestone County Sheriff's Department reported a high water rescue at LCR 456 and Plummer's Creek. The motorist was reported to be stranded and the car had been washed off the road.
April 2026	Hail	Shiloh	$7,000	Emergency manager reported golf ball sized hail 7 miles south of Mexia.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Shiloh	$5,000	KTXMEXIA17 - Adana Farms Weather Underground weather station measured a peak wind of 71 mph.
October 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Shiloh	$5,000	A downburst caused scattered tree damage in the Shiloh area of Limestone County. Several large tree branches were knocked down and some large trees were broken across the trunk. One metal barn was destroyed. Winds were estimated at 70-75 mph.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Shiloh	$1,000	Emergency management reported minor structural damage near the intersection of LCR 433 and LCR 439.
April 2026	Hail	Shiloh	-	Report of 1.5 inch hail from mPING.
March 2025	Hail	Shiloh	-	Emergency manager reported half dollar to ping pong ball sized hail along LCR 456 south of Mexia.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Shiloh	-	Emergency management reported multiple trees down and some tree blocking roads in the Shiloh area.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Shiloh	-	Large 2-3 foot plus trees down in multiple locations between Shiloh and Mexia along HWY 39.
April 2018	Hail	Shiloh	-	Emergency management reported quarter-sized hail on LCR 456 approximately 5 miles south of the city of Mexia, TX.
May 2017	Hail	Shiloh	-	Amateur Radio reported quarter size hail south of Mexia.
October 2009	Flood	Shiloh	-	High water was reported on County Road 456 west of the Navasota River. Other flooding was also reported along the Navasota River and some roads were covered in water.

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Holden	2.9 miles	8
Prairie Grove	3.3 miles	8
Fallon	3.3 miles	8
Point Enterprise	3.6 miles	8
Springfield	3.6 miles	8
Doyle	3.8 miles	8
Forest Glade	3.8 miles	9
Mexia	4.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1368146. 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.