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Tilmon, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Luling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78616. It stands on Daniels Creek. The Survey maps it on the McMahan quadrangle. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Tilmon within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

106 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Tilmon between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,129 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 burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
8 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9479 OLD COLONYLINE RD
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 113
4 September 2000Natural125 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasCR 205
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 101
27 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2015Natural2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSANDHILL RD.
11 September 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tilmon in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 3 hail, 2 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
September 2014Thunderstorm WindTilmon$5,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph that blew down some large oak trees.
April 2023HailTilmon-A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail southeast of Tilmon.
March 2018HailTilmon-A thunderstorm produced quarter to golf ball size hail east of Luling.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindTilmon-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph which blew down a tree across Harwood Road one mile east of FM1386.
May 2009HailTilmon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
Watts2.9 miles15
Brownsboro3.1 miles15
Seawillow3.3 miles15
McMahan4.2 miles15
Soda Springs6.0 miles16
McNeil6.4 miles16
Mineral Springs (historical)6.9 miles15
Joliet7.0 miles15

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 TilmonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48851319The 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 1379163. 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.