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Thomaston, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cuero census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77954. The Survey maps it on the Mission Valley quadrangle. It stands 161 feet above sea level.

Thomaston within DeWitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

38 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Thomaston between 2006 and 2020, burning about 358 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
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 87 RR FIRE
20 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFORDTRAN RD
18 August 2006Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCYPRESS VALLEY
15 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLAINE WILLIAMS GRASSFIRE
12 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY BALER
20 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKOHUTEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeWitt County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Thomaston: 3 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
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in DeWitt County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thomaston in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 3 flash flood, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2017Thunderstorm WindThomaston-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down a large tree limb on Thomaston River Rd.
July 2007Flash FloodThomaston-A cluster of thunderstorms over Fayette, Gonzales, Karnes, DeWitt, and Lavaca Counties produced general 1 to 2 inch rainfall with much of the rain falling in only 2 hours. In Lee County, US87 and FM236 were closed due to flash flooding.
July 2007Flash FloodThomaston-General 2 to 3 inch rain amounts fell in thunderstorms over Lavaca and DeWitt Counties,. Several county roads in the southeast corner of DeWitt County were closed due to flash flooding.
May 2005Flash FloodThomaston-A general 1 inch rain fell from Thomaston northeastward, with up to 3 inches in places. Flash flooding closed CR104 and CR114 northeast of Thomaston.
June 1998HailThomaston-no account filed

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
Verhelle3.8 miles9
Arneckeville6.2 miles7
Golly6.8 miles7
Meyersville9.6 miles7
Cuero9.7 miles10
Stratton10.6 miles10
Upper Meyersville11.5 miles7
Buchel13.3 miles10

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 ThomastonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7795592The 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 1377648. 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.