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Telegraph, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Junction Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76849. It lies in Telegraph Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Telegraph quadrangle. It stands 1,854 feet above sea level.

Telegraph within Kimble County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Telegraph between 2005 and 2018, burning about 10,840 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Natural1

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
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015-96
23 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015-80
2 August 2016Debris and open burning804 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKC 1121
3 July 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service201877
9 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-63
8 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-61
26 June 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH 377 N

Every fire recorded in Kimble County

Storms near this place

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Telegraph in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 13 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 4 deaths and 3 injuries. 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
October 2018Flash FloodTelegraph4 killed, 3 hurt, $9,000,000Some rural residents were trapped in their homes by a major flash flood on the S. Llano River and Cedar Creek, in some cases requiring them to be rescued. Others awoke to find water in their homes and were able to evacuate themselves.||The Above and Beyond RV Resort, located adjacent to the South Llano River, was completely flooded, washing RVs and motor vehicles down stream, trapping people who sought refuge in trees in the park, and carrying some down the river. First responders who arrived at the scene before daylight, heard people, who they were unable to see in trees and on top of RVs, calling for help. They threw life preservers to the victims in the water. ||Miraculously, a woman who was staying at the RV park was carried about 23 river miles downstream before being rescued near Yates Crossing. She was slightly injured. At least two others were injured. ||Old Cedar Creek flows into the South Llano River just a few hundred yards above the park. In the early hours of Monday morning, the normally small creek came expanded to 300 yards in size and poured volumes of water into the S. Llano. This water seemed to have arrived just prior to the wall of water from the South Llano. Rescue workers said they could hear the sound of a roar with a wall of water coming down the river. ||Authorities have reported that 40-45 people were evacuated and 19 people were rescued by helicopter or swift water rescue boats. There were three men and one woman who drowned. Some of these victims did all they could to help others evacuate the RV Park.||Cost of road damage was estimated at 9 million dollars. Damage to property was unknown.
October 2002Flash FloodTelegraph$5,000The South Llano River flooded the South Llano State Park and flowed over Highway 377 for almost a day and a half. The bulk of the water came from heavy rains that fell on the upper end of the South Llano River in Northern Edwards County. There were several waves of heavy rains over southern Kimble County that produced several rises on the river as well and kept the river elevated for a long period of time.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindTelegraph-The public reported several live oak trees with trunks snapped or uprooted.
October 2018Flash FloodTelegraph-Law enforcement reported several roads closed in Kimble County due to flooded low water crossings, including U.S. Highway 377 from the county line to Junction, Ranch Road 385 from London to Harper, Ranch Road 479, and FM 2169.
May 2016HailTelegraph-The public reported 2 inch hail at the intersection of U.S. Highway 377 and Fox Hollow Road.
June 2013HailTelegraph-Golf ball size hail was reported just north of the Kimble and Edwards County Line on the 700 Springs Ranch.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindTelegraph-A trained spotter reported a few 12 to 15 foot oak trees were uprooted by the strong thunderstorm winds. Numerous large limbs were also reported down.
April 2009HailTelegraph-The golfball size hail lasted for 10 minutes.
September 2009HailTelegraph-A rainfall observer located 7 miles east of Telegraph provided this report.
May 2007Flash FloodTelegraph-Kimble County reported water was over Highway 377 south of Junction along the South Llano river and they reported that Department of Transportion closed the highway.
October 2007HailTelegraph-A large amount of penny size hail 6 inches deep in places was reported.
September 1998Flash FloodTelegraph-Telegraph Canyon Draw in Telegraph reported out of its banks.
June 2014HailTelegraph-no account filed
June 2014HailTelegraph-no account filed
April 2006HailTelegraph-no account filed
April 2006HailTelegraph-no account filed
June 2005HailTelegraph-no account filed
April 2001HailTelegraph-no account filed
April 2001HailTelegraph-no account filed
February 1998HailTelegraph-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kimble 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
Wilson Place10.9 miles12
Buck Hollow12.8 miles12
Junction13.2 miles9
Roosevelt13.8 miles12
Segovia14.0 miles7
Cleo19.1 miles8
Noxville23.7 miles11
Yates24.5 miles8

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 TelegraphAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7696214The 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 1379144. 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.