BlockTaylorsville, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lockhart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78662. It stands on Cat Branch. The Survey maps it on the Red Rock quadrangle. It stands 531 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1901 USGS Flatonia quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Red Rock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
225 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Taylorsville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,272 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 | 120 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 54 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | STEPHANIE LN |
| 6 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 130 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 114 |
| 5 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PETTYTOWN FIRE |
| 30 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 309 OLD COLONY LINE ROAD |
| 30 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 15 |
| 3 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8810 TAYLORSVILLE ROAD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taylorsville in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | $25,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 75 mph. Two large Oak trees were uprooted. Several medium size metal buildings (12x20, 10x12, 60x100) were damaged or destroyed. All of the damage was near Dale. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Taylorsville | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing 36 roads in the county and washing two cars off roadways. |
| April 2010 | Flash Flood | Taylorsville | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flooding and closed the intersection of County Roads 158 and 159. |
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.
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 Taylorsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q48851310 | 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 1380933. 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.