The Grove, Texas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Flat census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76528. The Survey maps it on the Leon Junction quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1894 USGS Gatesville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Leon Junction quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Gatesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Leon Junction quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gatesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Temple quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Leon Junction quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
90 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of The Grove between 2002 and 2020, burning about 2,581 acres in total. 4 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 | 41 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MOTHER NEFF AREA FIRE CONT. |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HORSESHOE BEND FIRE |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HORSESHOE BEND FIRE |
| 3 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RHUDY FIRE |
| 3 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 13057 IRON BRIDGE |
| 24 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MOODY LEON |
| 2 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 4.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 341/1910 |
| 2 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 38 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names The Grove in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2013 | Lightning | The Grove | $2,000 | A lightning strike damaged an underground cable near Lake Belton that caused the Gatesville Regional Water Intake Structure to lose power. As a result, all Gatesville ISD campuses and less than 100 homes were without water through Monday. |
| May 2020 | Hail | The Grove | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | The Grove | $500 | The local newspaper reported a few trees were down in The Grove area and were blocking roads. |
| March 2014 | Hail | The Grove | - | Quarter sized hail was reported at the intersection of Highway 36 and 360. |
| May 2020 | Hail | The Grove | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Springs | 5.3 miles | 19 | |
| Leon Junction | 5.9 miles | 17 | |
| Flat | 6.1 miles | 16 | |
| Whitson | 6.1 miles | 16 | |
| Cavitt | 7.1 miles | 16 | |
| Riggs Ford | 7.8 miles | 17 | |
| Mound | 8.0 miles | 16 | |
| Lime City | 8.4 miles | 16 |
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 The Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7738383 | 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 1369783. 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.








