BlockSweet Home, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Yoakum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77987. The Survey maps it on the Sweet Home quadrangle. It stands 285 feet above sea level.
On record in Sweet Home
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
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Sweet Home quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Cuero quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Sweet Home between 2004 and 2017, burning about 57 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BROWN FIRE |
| 20 July 2009 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD 293 |
| 12 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD 95D |
| 3 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SAVADINA |
| 19 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 77A |
| 10 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 395 |
| 6 February 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 February 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sweet Home in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2012: 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sweet Home | $50,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds produce a downburst estimated at 60 knots that blew down power lines near Sweet Home. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sweet Home | $50,000 | Trees were uprooted by thunderstorm winds in Sweet Home. Power lines and trees were downed in Halletsville. |
| September 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Sweet Home | $5,000 | A small EF-0 tornado was seen on video from a school campus in Sweet Home. The survey concluded that the small tornado began just down the road from the school on FM 531 and then traveled northwest hitting the school playground area at approximately 5:02 PM. The video showed the small tornado moving through the playground damaging the playground and the school gymnasium door. The tornado then moved northwest behind the school and into an open field behind a nearby church. The tornado crossed County Road 378 and produced some minor tree damage before dissipating near FM 318. Special thanks go out to Sweet Home Independent School District and KSAT-12 TV in San Antonio for providing information and video of this tornado event. |
| April 2009 | Heavy Rain | Sweet Home | - | A CoCoRaHS observer reported 4.27 inches of rain in five hours north of Yoakum. There was also some minor flooding. |
| March 2007 | Flash Flood | Sweet Home | - | Between 3 and 5 inches of rain fell in the afternoon and evening over northwestern Lavaca County. Numerous rural roads were closed due to flooding, including FM530. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Sweet Home | - | Scattered showers and thunderstorms produced general 1 to 3 inch rain amounts in western Lavaca County with up to 6 inches near Hallettsville. FM111, FM530, and FM1447 were closed due to flash flooding. Many roads in Hallettsville were reported to be under water with several vehicles washed off the roads. |
| March 2006 | Flash Flood | Sweet Home | - | Thunderstorms formed along a slow-moving cold front in the mid afternoon as it crossed Lavaca County. The storms produced between 1 and 2 inches per hour, with accumulations of up to 4 inches southeast of Sweet Home near where FM531 intersects US77. The Sheriff's Department reported that FM531 was closed due to flash flooding in the area of US77 through the early evening. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Sweet Home | - | Afternoon thunderstorms produced a general 1 to 2 inch rainfall over western Lavaca County. Highest totals were near 4 inches northeast of Hallettsville. Flash flooding closed FM531 and FM532 through the late afternoon. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Olive | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Mont | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Koerth | 4.7 miles | 8 | |
| Adel | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Midway | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| Worthing | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| Wied | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Williamsburg | 6.7 miles | 8 |
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 Sweet Home | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7655347 | 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 1369462. 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.