Thompsonville, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Waelder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78632. It lies near Chalk Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Sandy Fork quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1901 USGS Flatonia quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Sandy Fork quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
38 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Thompsonville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 660 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 burning | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 640 BUCK BRANCH |
| 13 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.4 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROMINE |
| 8 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.8 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MM648 WEST FIRE |
| 31 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD 462 |
| 3 August 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 34 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FRONTAGE |
| 18 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RENOLDS GRASS FIRE |
| 18 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4D RANCH FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thompsonville in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2014: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thompsonville | $2,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph that damaged the roofs of several buildings at a chicken farm. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Thompsonville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandy Fork | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| Waelder | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Brown Hill | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Harwood | 7.0 miles | 16 | |
| Saturn | 7.3 miles | 11 | |
| Hickston | 8.9 miles | 11 | |
| Newtonville | 10.5 miles | 11 | |
| Comanche Crossing | 10.7 miles | 11 |
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 Thompsonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18217500 | 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 1379158. 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.




