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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.

Thompsonville within Gonzales County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 1998

Regional 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 burning18
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
28 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service640 BUCK BRANCH
13 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use6.4 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROMINE
8 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use3.8 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMM648 WEST FIRE
31 August 2015Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 462
3 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2011Debris and open burning34 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFRONTAGE
18 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRENOLDS GRASS FIRE
18 August 2011Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4D RANCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gonzales County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2014Thunderstorm WindThompsonville$2,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph that damaged the roofs of several buildings at a chicken farm.
April 2013HailThompsonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gonzales 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
Sandy Fork2.2 miles11
Waelder4.4 miles11
Brown Hill5.8 miles12
Harwood7.0 miles16
Saturn7.3 miles11
Hickston8.9 miles11
Newtonville10.5 miles11
Comanche Crossing10.7 miles11

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 ThompsonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18217500The 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.