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Terryville, 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 77995. It stands on Tonqua Creek. The Survey maps it on the Terryville quadrangle.

Terryville within DeWitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

21 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Terryville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 801 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
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 August 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCATTLE GUARD RD
20 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 413 A
24 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1223 CR 413
15 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 436 FIRE
22 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTATE HWY 111 EAST
24 March 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 December 2007Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeWitt County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Terryville: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
C W and A IncorporatedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in DeWitt County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Terryville in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 3 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2023Flash FloodTerryville-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing FM 1447 at FM 682 southwest of Terryville.
June 2015Flash FloodTerryville-Heavy rain from Tropical storm Bill caused flash flooding closing three lanes of US77 northeast of Fordtran.
March 2012Flash FloodTerryville-Slow moving thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flash flooding. Water covered the road in numerous locations along FM 1447 between Cuero and Terryville.

Every storm recorded in DeWitt 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
Stratton5.0 miles10
Yoakum8.0 miles9
Edgar8.7 miles10
Petersville11.5 miles9
Buchel11.9 miles10
Verhelle12.0 miles9
Concrete12.2 miles10
Pearl City12.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380648. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.