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Theon, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Jarrell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76537. The Survey maps it on the Jarrell quadrangle.

Theon within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 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

40 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Theon between 2005 and 2019, burning about 412 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3940 CR 234
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service500 CR 314
4 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1100 CR 237
4 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 237
31 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service630 CR 234
30 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5501 N IH 35
26 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINDY HILL/ JARRELL
23 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1350 CR 143

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Theon in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 hail. 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
March 2025HailTheon-A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail near Walburg.

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
New Corn Hill0.7 miles12
Walburg2.0 miles17
Sonterra2.8 miles12
Corn Hill3.2 miles12
Jarrell4.3 miles12
Keelersville4.6 miles17
Berrys Creek4.7 miles20
Schwertner5.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1369820. 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.